We must believe the things We teach our children
WOODROW WILSONA radical is one of whom people say ”He goes too far.” A conservative, on the other hand, is one who ”doesn’t go far enough.” Then there is the reactionary, ”one who doesn’t go at all.” All these terms are more or less objectionable, wherefore we have.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being.
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There’s not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else’s brains.
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No people are true Christians who do not think constantly of how they can lift their brother and sister, how they can assist their friends, how they can enlighten mankind, how they can make virtue the rule of conduct in the circle in which they live.
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What is the use of voting? We know that the machines of both parties are subsidized by the same persons, and therefore it is useless to turn in either direction.
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The world must be made safe for democracy.
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The roll of honor consists of the names of meant who have squared their conduct by ideals of duty.
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I would not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with great respect of the past.
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If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. Character is a by-product, and any man who devotes himself to its cultivation in his own case will become a selfish prig.
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The ordinary literary man, even though he be an eminent historian, is ill-fitted to be a mentor in affairs of government. For… things are for the most part very simple in books, and in practical life very complex.
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The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
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Remember that God ordained that I should be the next president of the United States. Neither you nor any other mortal or mortals could have prevented this.
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Liberty does not consist in mere declarations of the rights of man. It consists in the translation of those declarations into definite action.
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To be free is not necessarily to be wise. Wisdom comes with counsel, with the frank and free conference of untrammeled men united in the common interest.
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Absolute identity with one’s cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
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I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.
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