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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When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.
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We cannot be separated in interest or divided in purpose. We stand together until the end.
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The Bible is the one supreme source of revelation of the meaning of life, the nature of God and spiritual nature and need of men. It is the only guide of life which really leads the spirit in the way of peace and salvation.
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If you lose your wealth, you have lost nothing; if you lose your health, you have lost something; but if you lose your character, you have lost everything.
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You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand
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Men are not put into this world to go the path of ease, they are put into this world to go the path of pain and struggle.
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I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being.
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I am sorry for men who do not read the Bible every day. I wonder why they deprive themselves of the strength and pleasure.
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Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.
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I could see now that a literary education did not fit one for the popular novelist’s trade.Once you had started using words like flavicomous or acroamatic, because you liked the sound of them, you were lost.
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The world can be at peace only if the world is stable, and there can be no stability where the will is in rebellion, where there is not tranquility of spirit and a sense of justice, of freedom, and of right.
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The man who has no vision will undertake no great enterprise.
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Any man that resists the present tides that run in the world, will find himself thrown upon a shore so high and barren that it will seem he has been separated from his human kind forever.
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A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
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Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse. Untrammeled reasoning is the indulgence of the philosopher, of the dreamer of sweet dreams.
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