“Once lead this people into war and they will forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance.”
Woodrow Wilson
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“Never for a moment have I had one doubt about my religious beliefs. There are people who believe only so far as they can understand–that seems to me presumptuous and sets their understanding as the standard of the universe.”
Woodrow Wilson
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“Scholarship cannot do without literature…. It needs literature to float it, to set it current, to authenticate it to all the race, to get it out of closets and into the brains of men who stir abroad.”
Woodrow Wilson
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“The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous, event of our generation.”
Woodrow Wilson
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“We ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialists–believers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic.”
Woodrow Wilson
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“The child … stands upon a place apart, a little spectator of the world, before whom men and women come and go, events fall out, years open their slow story and are noted or let go as his mood chances to serve them. The play touches him not. He but looks on, thinks his own thought, and turns away, not even expecting his cue to enter the plot and speak. He waits,–he knows not for what.”
Woodrow Wilson
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“There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.”
Woodrow Wilson
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“He is not a true man of the world who knows only the present fashions of it.”
Woodrow Wilson
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“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 prig.”
Woodrow Wilson
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“I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.”
Woodrow Wilson
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“Absolute identity with one’s cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.”
Woodrow Wilson
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“You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.”
Woodrow Wilson
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“Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.”
Woodrow Wilson
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“Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord’s Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.”
Woodrow Wilson
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“Science … has won for us a great liberty in the physical world, a liberty from superstitious fear and from disease, a freedom touse nature as a familiar servant; but it has not freed us from ourselves.”
Woodrow Wilson
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“We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study.”
Woodrow Wilson
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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 it … and through us the world, out into pastures of quietness and peace such as the world never dreamed of before.”
Woodrow Wilson
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“You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the nooncomes and the full sun is upon the landscape.”
Woodrow Wilson
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“I want to re-echo my hope that we may all work together for a great peace as distinguished from a mean peace.”
Woodrow Wilson
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Hope
