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Woodrow Wilson, fully Thomas Woodrow Wilson

It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilization itself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts--for democracy, for the right of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their own governments, for the rights and liberties of small nations, for a universal dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world itself at last free.

Change | Government | Growth | Government |

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Woodrow Wilson, fully Thomas Woodrow Wilson

Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.

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Woodrow Wilson, fully Thomas Woodrow Wilson

The object of education is not merely to draw out the powers of the individual mind: it is rather its right object to draw all minds to a proper adjustment to the physical and social world in which they are to have their life and their development: to enlighten, strengthen and make fit.

Honor | Life | Life |

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Thornton Wilder, fully Thornton Niven Wilder

The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much.

Life | Life | Rest |

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Woodrow Wilson, fully Thomas Woodrow Wilson

The old theory of the sovereignty of the States, which used so to engage our passions, has lost its vitality. The war between the States established at least this principle, that the federal government is, through its courts, the final judge of its own powers... We are impatient of state legislatures because they seem to us less representative of the thoughtful opinion of the country than Congress is. We know that our legislatures do not think alike, but we are not sure that our people do not think alike...

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Thornton Wilder, fully Thornton Niven Wilder

Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests.

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Thornton Wilder, fully Thornton Niven Wilder

Pride, avarice and envy are in every home.

Life | Life |

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Woodrow Wilson, fully Thomas Woodrow Wilson

The success of a party means little more than that the Nation is using the party for a large and definite purpose. It seeks to use and interpret a change in its own plans and point of view.

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Thorstein Veblen, fully Thorstein Bunde Veblen, born Torsten Bunde Veblen

The superior excellence imputed to the book, which imitates the products of antique and obsolete processes, is conceived to be chiefly a superior utility in the aesthetic respect; but it is not unusual to find a well-bred book-lover insisting that the clumsier product is also more serviceable as a vehicle of printed speech.

Life | Life | Weapons |

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Woodrow Wilson, fully Thomas Woodrow Wilson

It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.

Change |

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Thornton Wilder, fully Thornton Niven Wilder

Comparisons of one's lot with others' teaches us nothing and enfeebles the will.

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Woodrow Wilson, fully Thomas Woodrow Wilson

The great voice of America does not come from the seats of learning, but in a murmur from the hills and the woods and the farms and the factories and the mills, rolling on and gaining volume until it comes to us the voice from the homes of the common men. Do these murmurs come into the corridors of the university? I have not heard them.

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Woodrow Wilson, fully Thomas Woodrow Wilson

When you come into the presence of a leader of men, you know that you have come into the presence of fire - that it is best not uncautiously to touch that man - that there is something that makes it dangerous to cross him.

Courage | Life | Life | Men |

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Thornton Wilder, fully Thornton Niven Wilder

Camila had intended to be perfunctory and if possible impudent, but now she was struck for the first time with the dignity of the old woman. The mercer's daughter could carry herself at times with all the distinction of the Montemayors and when she was drunk she wore the grandeur of Hecuba.

Life | Life |

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Thornton Wilder, fully Thornton Niven Wilder

Many who have spent a lifetime can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.

Life | Life | Child |

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Thornton Wilder, fully Thornton Niven Wilder

You swore you loved me, and laughed and warned me that you would not love me forever.

Life | Life | Love | Need |

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Thornton Wilder, fully Thornton Niven Wilder

The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way.

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Woodrow Wilson, fully Thomas Woodrow Wilson

We shall fight for a universal dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world itself at last free.

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Woodrow Wilson, fully Thomas Woodrow Wilson

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.

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