Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.
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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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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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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If you’ve made up your mind you can do something, you’re absolutely RIGHT.
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I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool, the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.
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War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.
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Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the distemper’s that make an ordered life impossible.
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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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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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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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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.
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I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
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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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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 would not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with great respect of the past.
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Segregation is not humiliating but a benefit.
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