The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
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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It does not become America that within her borders, where every man is free to follow the dictates of his conscience, men should raise the cry of church against church. To do that is to strike at the very spirit and heart of America.
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If you wish your children to be Christians you must really take the trouble to be Christian yourselves. Those are the only terms upon which the home will work the gracious miracle.
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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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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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It is not an army that we must train for war; it is a nation.
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Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.
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The history of liberty is a history of resistance.
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We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world.
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I have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty, and business liberty, and every other kind of liberty, in the phrase that is common in the sporting world, ‘A free field and no favor.’
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Power consists in one’s capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.
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The fewer the desires, the more peace.
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Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting.
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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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The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them.
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The truth is we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless.
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