That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
WOODROW WILSONThe government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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The seed of revolution is repression.
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Conformity will be the only virtue and any man who refuses to conform will have to pay the penalty.
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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.
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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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If you wish your children to be Christians you must really take the trouble to be Christian yourselves. Those are the only terms upon which the home will work the gracious miracle.
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One of the proofs of the divinity of our gospel is the preaching it has survived.
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No man has ever risen to the stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.
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Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
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As a matter of fact and experience, the more power is divided the more irresponsible it becomes.
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War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.
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The man who disparages music as a luxury and non-essential is doing the nation an injury. Music now, more than ever before, is a national need.
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Power consists in one’s capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.
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Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse. Untrammeled reasoning is the indulgence of the philosopher, of the dreamer of sweet dreams.
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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.
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Liberty does not consist in mere declarations of the rights of man. It consists in the translation of those declarations into definite action.
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