Woodrow Wilson quotes - page 9

It must be a peace without victory... Victory would mean peace forced upon the loser, a victor's terms imposed upon the vanquished. It would be accepted in humiliation, under duress, at an intolerable sacrifice, and would leave a sting, a resentment, a bitter memory upon which terms of peace would rest, not permanently, but only as upon quicksand. Only a peace between equals can last. (Woodrow Wilson)
The truth is, we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless. View quote
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All things come to him who waits -- provided he knows what he is waiting for. View quote
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Unless justice be done to others it will not be done to us. View quote
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To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking. View quote
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We grow by our dreams. View quote
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The history of liberty is the history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it. When we resist ... concentration of power we are resisting the powers of death, because concentration of power is what always precedes the destruction of human liberties. View quote
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We cannot be separated in interest or divided in purpose. We stand together until the end. View quote
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I am not one of those who believe that a great army is the means of maintaining peace, because if you build up a great profession those who form parts of it want to exercise their profession. View quote
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It is the object of learning, not only to satisfy the curiosity and perfect the spirits of ordinary men, but also to advance civilization. View quote
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A radical is one of whom people say ''He goes too far.'' A conservative, on the other hand, is one who ''doesn't go far enough.'' Then there is the reactionary, ''one who doesn't go at all.'' All these terms are more or less objectionable, wherefore we have. (Woodrow Wilson)
If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. Character is a by-product, and any man who devotes himself to its cultivation in his own case will become a selfish pig. View quote
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There's not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else's brains. View quote
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Today's greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow. View quote
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When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you will have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness and your own duty. View quote
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I believe in democracy, because it releases the energies of every human being. View quote
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Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life. View quote
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Is there any man here or any woman, let me say is there any child here, who does not know that the seed of war in the modern world is industrial and commercial rivalry? View quote
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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. View quote
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If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if an hour, I am ready now. View quote
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Every great man of business has got somewhere a touch of the idealist in him. (Woodrow Wilson)
You must act in your friends interest whether it pleases him or not the object of love is to serve, not to win. View quote
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We should not only master questions, but also act upon them, and act definitely. View quote
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We live in an age disturbed, confused, bewildered, afraid of its own forces, in search not merely of its road but even of its direction. View quote
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No thoughtful man ever came to the end of his life, and had time and a little space of calm from which to look back upon it, who did not know and acknowledge that it was what he had done unselfishly and for others, and nothing else, that satisfied him in the retrospect, and made him feel that he had played the man. View quote
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