Thought cannot conceive of anything that may not be brought to expression. He who first uttered it may be only the suggester, but the doer will appear.
WOODROW WILSONA conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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The object of love is to serve, not to win.
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We are no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and the duress of small groups of dominant men.
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Responsibility is proportionate to opportunity.
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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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Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.
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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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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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A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.
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I am not one of those who believe that a great standing army is the means of maintaining peace, because if you build up a great profession those who form parts of it want to exercise their profession.
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Every people has a right to choose the sovereignty under which they shall live.
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We must believe the things We teach our children
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Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
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That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
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I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being.
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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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We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.
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To be free is not necessarily to be wise. Wisdom comes with counsel, with the frank and free conference of untrammeled men united in the common interest.
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America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.
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At every crisis in one’s life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving.
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There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.
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There 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.
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The history of liberty is a history of resistance.
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One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
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The world can be at peace only if the world is stable, and there can be no stability where the will is in rebellion, where there is not tranquility of spirit and a sense of justice, of freedom, and of right.
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The world must be made safe for democracy.
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I have the feeling that he would rather see a good cause fail than succeed if he were not the head of it.
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