It is like writing history with lightning and my o... -Woodrow Wilson

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

Woodrow Wilson , President
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Woodrow Wilson Quotes to Explore

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 ho...
The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them....
There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed....
The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty....
Neutrality is a negative word. It does not express what America ought to feel. We are not trying to keep out of trouble; we are trying to preserve the...
If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience....
Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose....
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 i...
My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business, that it is something we owe to each other to understand and discuss with abs...
I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something....

History Quotes to Explore

We have plenty of examples from twentieth-century history where, out of fear of liberalism or Communism, religious conservatives made alliances with s...
I did 'Call of Duty Modern Warfare' as Gaz, then I did Ghost in 'Modern Warfare 2,' which has become one of the most iconic figures in the history of ...
There is a big push that we all are engaged in, in wanting to have the newest in innovation - and I think that's all really great. But I also feel tha...
I believe this generation should know their history and they should know that the struggle's not over yet....
Throughout history, cities have been associated with incredible bursts of creative energy - the Renaissance in Florence, or modernism in Paris. London...
I sort of mind living in a time when most of the literature is terribly personal. I suppose it's because I grew up on a love of history, philosophy, s...
There were no strategic mistakes that could affect Russia's history and it further development. No, there were no such mistakes. Tactical errors were ...
When I went to get my master's in creative writing at San Francisco State after Grinnell, I joined the moribund remnants of the Actor's Workshop, unti...
In the entire history of the human species, every tool we've invented has been to expand muscle power. All except one. The integrated circuit, the com...
Over the years, more than one reviewer has described my fantasy series, 'A Song of Ice and Fire', as historical fiction about history that never happe...