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.
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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No people are true Christians who do not think constantly of how they can lift their brother and sister, how they can assist their friends, how they can enlighten mankind, how they can make virtue the rule of conduct in the circle in which they live.
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Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.
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Power consists in one’s capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.
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Remember that God ordained that I should be the next president of the United States. Neither you nor any other mortal or mortals could have prevented this.
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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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The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.
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I had rather have everybody on my side than be armed to the teeth.
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We cannot be separated in interest or divided in purpose. We stand together until the end.
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No man ever saw a government. I live in the midst of the Government of the United States, but I never saw the Government of the United States.
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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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It is the object of learning, not only to satisfy the curiosity and perfect the spirits of ordinary men, but also to advance civilization.
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To conquer with arms is to make only a temporary conquest; to conquer the world by earning its esteem is to make a permanent conquest.
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No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know
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Absolute identity with one’s cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
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Government, in it’s last analysis, is organized force.
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