Woodrow Wilson Quotes, Style Quotes, Matter Quotes

I must beg you to indulge me in the matter of hyphens.... You will find that I have marked out a great many in the proofs. We arein danger of Germanizing our printing by using them so much, and I have a very decided preference in the matter.

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Let me... remind you that it is only by working with an energy which is almost superhuman and which looks to uninterested spectators like insanity that we can accomplish anything worth the achievement. Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God.

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You must act in your friends' interests whether it pleases them or not; the object of love is to serve, not to win.

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The man who disparages music as a luxury and non-essential is doing the nation an injury. Music now, more than ever before, is a national need.

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There is one thing that the American people always rise to and extend their hand to and that is the truth of justice, and of liberty, and of peace. We have accepted that truth and we are going to led by itand through us the world, out into pastures of quietness and peace such as the world never dreamed of before.

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America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us...

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By 'radical,' I understand one who goes too far; by 'conservative,' one who does not go far enough; by 'reactionary,' one who won't go at all.

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I am one who fights without a knack of hoping confidentlysimply a Scotch-Irishman who will not be conquered.

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A man is not as big as his belief in himself; he is as big as the number of persons who believe in him.

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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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I do not want to live under a philanthropy. I do not want to be taken care of by the government.... We do not want a benevolent government. We want a free and a just government.

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Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

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The flag is a flag of liberty of opinion as well as of political liberty.

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The competent leader of men cares little for the niceties of other peoples' characters: he cares much--everything--for the exterior uses to which they may be put.... These are men to be moved. How should he move them? He supplies the power; others simply the materials on which that power operates.

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I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.

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If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

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A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what we have been about.

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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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The men who act stand nearer to the mass of man than the men who write; and it is in their hands that new thought gets its translation into the crude language of deeds.

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Some of the greatest and most lasting effects of genuine oratory have gone forth from secluded lecture desks into the hearts of quiet groups of students.

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