Woodrow Wilson Quotes, Heart Quotes, Eye Quotes

Every one at the bottom of his heart cherishes vanity; even the toad thinks himself good-looking,--"rather tawny perhaps, but look at his eye!

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I want the people to love me, but I suppose they never will.

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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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Liberty cannot live apart from constitutional

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

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The city of Washington is in some respects self-contained, and it is easy there to forget what the rest of the United States is thinking about. I count it a fortunate circumstance that almost all the windows of the White House and its offices open upon unoccupied spaces that stretch to the banks of the Potomacand that as I sit there I can constantly forget Washington and remember the United States.

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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.

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Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.

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Neutrality is a negative word. It is a word that does not express what America ought to feel. America has a heart, and that heart throbs with all sorts of intense sympathies... We are not trying to keep out of trouble; we are trying to preserve the foundations upon which peace can be rebuilt.

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I have come slowly into possession of such powers as I have. I receive the opinions of my day. I do not conceive them. But I receive them into a vivid mind.

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There is here a great melting pot in which we must compound a precious metal. That metal is the metal of nationality.

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We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.

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There is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.

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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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Character, my friends, is a byproduct. It is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

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Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.

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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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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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It is not men that interest or disturb me primarily; it is ideas. Ideas live; men die.

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It is imperative that we should not only master them, but also act upon them, and act very definitely.

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