Today’s greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow.
WOODROW WILSONThere is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.
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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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The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.
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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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Benevolence does not consist in those who are prosperous pitying and helping those who are not. It consists in fellow feeling that puts you upon actually the same level with the fellow who suffers.
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There’s not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else’s brains.
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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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There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
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The white men were roused by a mere instinct of self-preservation—until at last there had sprung into existence a great Ku Klux Klan, a veritable empire of the South, to protect the Southern country.
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We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.
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There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.
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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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No man has ever risen to the stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.
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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.
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Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse. Untrammeled reasoning is the indulgence of the philosopher, of the dreamer of sweet dreams.
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