High society is for those who have stopped working and no longer have anything important to do.
WOODROW WILSONWar isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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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.
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One of the proofs of the divinity of our gospel is the preaching it has survived.
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The great monopoly in this country is the money monopoly. So long as it exists, our old variety of freedom and individual energy of development are out of the question.
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The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.
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Government, in it’s last analysis, is organized force.
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What every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence.
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We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.
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It’s harder for a leader to be born in a palace than to be born in a cabin.
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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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Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.
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When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you will have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness and your own duty.
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The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.
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I believe that soldiers will bear me out in saying that both come in time of battle. I take it that the moral courage comes in going into the battle, and the physical courage in staying in.
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America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.
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Is there any man here or any woman, let me say is there any child here, who does not know that the seed of war in the modern world is industrial and commercial rivalry?
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I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being.
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When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.
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If you’ve made up your mind you can do something, you’re absolutely RIGHT.
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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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I would not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with great respect of the past.
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As a matter of fact and experience, the more power is divided the more irresponsible it becomes.
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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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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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We are not put into this world to sit still and know; we are put into it to act.
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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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I do not want a government that will take care of me, I want a government that will make other men take their hands off me so I can take care of myself.
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