The ordinary literary man, even though he be an eminent historian, is ill-fitted to be a mentor in affairs of government. For… things are for the most part very simple in books, and in practical life very complex.
WOODROW WILSONThere 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.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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The right is more precious than peace.
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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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We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.
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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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Never murder a man when he’s busy committing suicide.
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That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
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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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Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the distemper’s that make an ordered life impossible.
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A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
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You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand
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There was a time when corporations played a minor part in our business affairs, but now they play the chief part, and most men are the servants of corporations.
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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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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 man who has no vision will undertake no great enterprise.
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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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