To conquer with arms is to make only a temporary conquest; to conquer the world by earning its esteem is to make a permanent conquest.
WOODROW WILSONWe want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class, of necessity, in every society, to forego the privileges of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.
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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 man who reads everything is like the man who eats everything: he can digest nothing, and the penalty of crowding one’s mind with other men’s thoughts is to have no thoughts of one’s own.
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Has justice ever grown in the soil of absolute power? Has not justice always come from the … heart and spirit of men who resist power?
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There is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.
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This was not after all a conventional war, a struggle between equally predacious powers; it was a war to end all wars.
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Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
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Is there any man here or any woman, let me say is there any child here, who does not know that the seed of war in the modern world is industrial and commercial rivalry?
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I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.
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If the colored people made a mistake in voting for me, they ought to correct it.
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No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.
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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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It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilizationitself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things we have always carried closest to our hearts.
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We must believe the things We teach our children
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There is something better, if possible, that a man can give than his life. That is his living spirit to a service that is not easy, to resist counsels that are hard to resist, to stand against purposes that are difficult to stand against.
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