The way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.
WOODROW WILSONWar isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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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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The sum of the whole matter is this – our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually.
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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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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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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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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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I had rather have everybody on my side than be armed to the teeth.
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We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world.
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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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The roll of honor consists of the names of meant who have squared their conduct by ideals of duty.
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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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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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Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.
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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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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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