Woodrow Wilson Quotes, Knowledge Quotes, Ideas Quotes

There's not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else's brains.

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Every country is renewed out of the unknown ranks and not out of the ranks of those already famous and powerful and in control.

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We grow through our dreams. All great men and women are dreamers. Some, however, allow their dreams to die. You should nurse your dreams and protect them through bad times and tough times to the sunshine and light which always come.

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The trouble with the theory [of limited and divided government] is that government is not a machine, but a living thing. This is where the living and breathing constitution comes from. It is modified by its environment, necessitated by its tasks, shaped to its functions by the sheer pressure of life.

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A man's rootage is more important than his leafage.

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When you come into the presence of a leader of men, you know that you have come into the presence of fire - that it is best not uncautiously to touch that man - that there is something that makes it dangerous to cross him.

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His [the President's] office is anything he has the sagacity and force to make it.

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War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.

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I had rather be defeated in a cause that will ultimately triumph than triumph in a cause that will ultimately be defeated.

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Progressiveness means not standing still when everything else is moving.

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Sciencehas won for us a great liberty in the physical world, a liberty from superstitious fear and from disease, a freedom touse nature as a familiar servant; but it has not freed us from ourselves.

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The great war that broke so suddenly upon the world two years ago, and which has swept up within its flame so great a part of thecivilized world, has affected us very profoundly.... With its causes and its objects we are not concerned. The obscure fountains from which its stupendous flood has burst we are not interested to search for or explore.

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If you would be a leader of men, you must lead your own generation, not the next.

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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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It is a protest against the way the world has worked. (explanation of Bolshevism)

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It is not an army that we must train for war; it is a nation.

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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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We want the spirit of America to be efficient; we want American character to be efficient; we want American character to display itself in what I may, perhaps, be allowed to call spiritual efficiency - clear disinterested thinking and fearless action

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America is the place where you cannot kill your government by killing the men who conduct 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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