A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.
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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We ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialists–believers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic.
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Conformity will be the only virtue and any man who refuses to conform will have to pay the penalty.
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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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That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
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A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what we have been about.
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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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A man’s rootage is more important than his leafage.
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The truth is we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless.
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The shadows that now lie dark upon our path will soon be dispelled and we shall walk with the light all about us if we but be true to ourselves.
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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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To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fibre of national life.
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Segregation is not humiliating but a benefit.
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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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Self-determination is not a mere phrase. It is an imperative principle of action, which statesmen will henceforth ignore at their peril.
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We came to America, either ourselves or in the persons of our ancestors, to better the ideals of men, to make them see finer things than they had seen before, to get rid of the things that divide and to make sure of the things that unite.
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