We must believe the things We teach our children
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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There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
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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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We are not put into this world to sit still and know; we are put into it to act.
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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 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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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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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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The whole purpose of democracy is that we may hold counsel with one another, so as not to depend upon the understanding of one man.
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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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I had rather have everybody on my side than be armed to the teeth.
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Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
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We cannot be separated in interest or divided in purpose. We stand together until the end.
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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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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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I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
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I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.
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Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting.
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The man who has no vision will undertake no great enterprise.
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A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.
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If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.
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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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One of the proofs of the divinity of our gospel is the preaching it has survived.
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What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.
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Government, in it’s last analysis, is organized force.
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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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Never murder a man when he’s busy committing suicide.
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