Woodrow Wilson Quotes, Lonely Quotes, Loneliness Quotes

There is a very holy and a very terrible isolation for the conscience of every man who seeks to read the destiny in affairs for others as well as for himself, for a nation as well as for individuals. That privacy no man can intrude upon. That lonely search of the spirit for the right perhaps no man can assist.

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Tell me what is right and I will fight for it.

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What is the use of voting? We know that the machines of both parties are subsidized by the same persons, and therefore it is useless to turn in either direction.

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Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse.

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

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We are expected to put the utmost energy, of every power that we have, into the service of our fellow men, never sparing ourselves, not condescending to think of what is going to happen to ourselves, but ready, if need be, to go to the utter length of self-sacrifice.

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Have you thought of the sufferings of Armenia? You poured out your money to help succor the Armenians after they suffered; now set your strength so that they shall never suffer again.

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There are blessed intervals when I forget by one means or another that I am President of the United States.

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We ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialists--believers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic.

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The Civil War created in this country what had never existed before - a national consciousness. It was not the salvation of the Union; it was the rebirth of the Union.

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A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.

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I had rather have everybody on my side than be armed to the teeth.

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The firm basis of government is justice, not pity.

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Jefferson's Declaration of Independence is a practical document for the use of practical men. It is not a thesis for philosophers, but a whip for tyrants; it is not a theory of government but a program of action.

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Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.

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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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My best training came from my father.

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The greatest and truest models for all oratorsis Demosthenes. One who has not studied deeply and constantly all the great speeches of the great Athenian, is not prepared to speak in public. Only as the constant companion of Demosthenes, Burke, Fox, Canning and Webster, can we hope to become orators.

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We can afford to exercise the self-restraint of a really great nation which realizes its own strength and scorns to misuse it.

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Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting.

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