The man who disparages music as a luxury and non-essential is doing the nation an injury. Music now, more than ever before, is a national need.
WOODROW WILSONLoyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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Men grow by having responsibility laid upon them.
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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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I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.
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Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting.
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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 are not put into this world to sit still and know; we are put into it to act.
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If the colored people made a mistake in voting for me, they ought to correct it.
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Today’s greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow.
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A fault which humbles a person is of more use to him or her than a good action which puffs him or her up.
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Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
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Government ought to be all outside and no inside. Everybody knows that corruption thrives in secret places, and avoids public places, and we believe it a fair presumption that secrecy means impropriety.
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All things come to him who waits – provided he knows what he is waiting for.
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To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fibre of national life.
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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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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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