Woodrow Wilson Quotes, Night Quotes, Men Quotes

The literary gift is a very dangerous gift to possess if you are not telling the truth, and I would a great deal rather, for my part, have a man stumble in his speech than to feel he was so exceedingly smooth that he had better be watched both day and night.

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No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know

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I came from the South and I know what war is, for I have seen its wreckage and terrible ruin. It is easy for me as President to declare war. I do not have to fight, and neither do the gentlemen on the Hill who now clamour for it. It is some poor farmer's boy, or son of some poor widow away off in some modest community, or perhaps the scion of a great family, who will have to do the fighting.

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No people are true Christians who do not think constantly of how they can lift their brother and sister, how they can assist their friends, how they can enlighten mankind, how they can make virtue the rule of conduct in the circle in which they live.

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Responsibility is proportionate to opportunity.

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

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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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It is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shouting at you.

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No government has ever been beneficent when the attitude of government was that it was taking care of the people. The only freedom consists in the people taking care of the government.

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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 have no happy fairyland vision that she can win.

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And when they [American soldiers] came, they found fit comrades for their courage and their devotion. ... Joining hands with these, the men of America gave that greatest of all gifts, the gift of life and the gift of spirit.

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Settlements may be temporary, but the action of the nations in the interest of peace and justice must be permanent. We can set up permanent processes. We may not be able to set up permanent decisions.

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The greatest embarrassment of my political career has been that active duties seem to deprive me of time for careful investigation. I seem almost obliged to form conclusions from impressions instead of from study.... I wish that I had more knowledge, more thorough acquaintance, with the matters involved.

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The presidential office is not a rosewater affair. This is an office in which a man must put on his war paint.

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The seed of revolution is repression.

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I believe that soldiers will bear me out in saying that both come in time of battle. I take it that the moral courage comes in going into the battle, and the physical courage in staying in.

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The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates.

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Opinion is the great, indeed the only coordinating force in our system.

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Remember that God ordained that I should be the next president of the United States. Neither you nor any other mortal or mortals could have prevented this.

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