Woodrow Wilson Quotes, Lying Quotes, Taken Quotes

Here lies, in a "horizontal" position The "outside" case of Peter Pendulum, watch-maker. He departed this life "wound up" In hopes of being "taken in hand" by his Maker, And of being thoroughly "cleaned, repaired" and "set a-going" In the world to come.

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A right is worth fighting for only when it can be put into operation.

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In fundamental theory socialism and democracy are almost if not quite one and the same. They both rest at bottom upon the absolute right of the community to determine its own destiny and that of its members. Men as communities are supreme over men as individuals. Limits of wisdom and convenience to the public control there may be: limits of principle there are, upon strict analysis, none.

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Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse.

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They lived long that have lived well.

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Justice has nothing to do with expediency. Justice has nothing to do with any temporary standard whatever. It is rooted and grounded in the fundamental instincts of humanity.

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I am sorry for those that disagree with me because I know that they are wrong.

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The profession I chose was politics; the profession I entered was law. I entered the one because I thought it would lead to the other.

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Wilson was once asked how long it took him to write a speech. He answered, 'That depends. If I am to speak 10 minutes, I need a week for preparation. If 15 minutes, 3 days. If half hour, two days. If an hour, I am ready now.'

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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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Bagehot did what so many thousand of young graduates before him had done,--he studied for the bar; and then, having prepared himself to practise law, followed another large body of young men in deciding to abandon it.

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America is the only idealistic nation in the world.

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What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.

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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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Some people have a large circle of friends while others have only friends that they like.

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Death, like the quintessence of otherness, is for others.

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The difference between a strong man and a weak one is that the former does not give up after a defeat.

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I have no happy fairyland vision that she can win.

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I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country.

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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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