A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.
WOODROW WILSONThe flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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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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Character, my friends, is a byproduct. It is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.
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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 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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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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A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
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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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Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
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We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.
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Men grow by having responsibility laid upon them.
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I believe that soldiers will bear me out in saying that both come in time of battle. I take it that the moral courage comes in going into the battle, and the physical courage in staying in.
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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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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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As a matter of fact and experience, the more power is divided the more irresponsible it becomes.
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We must believe the things We teach our children
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