Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting.
WOODROW WILSONThe flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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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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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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A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
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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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A radical is one of whom people say ”He goes too far.” A conservative, on the other hand, is one who ”doesn’t go far enough.” Then there is the reactionary, ”one who doesn’t go at all.” All these terms are more or less objectionable, wherefore we have.
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Every people has a right to choose the sovereignty under which they shall live.
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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 use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.
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Only peace between equals can last.
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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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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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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.
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It’s harder for a leader to be born in a palace than to be born in a cabin.
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The seed of revolution is repression.
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Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.
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