What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.
WOODROW WILSONIf you want to make enemies, try to change something.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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The man who has no vision will undertake no great enterprise.
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We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.
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There’s not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else’s brains.
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No government has ever been beneficent when the attitude of government was that it was taking care of the people. The only freedom consists in the people taking care of the government.
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We are no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and the duress of small groups of dominant men.
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America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.
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The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.
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Thought cannot conceive of anything that may not be brought to expression. He who first uttered it may be only the suggester, but the doer will appear.
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The white men were roused by a mere instinct of self-preservation—until at last there had sprung into existence a great Ku Klux Klan, a veritable empire of the South, to protect the Southern country.
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The world can be at peace only if the world is stable, and there can be no stability where the will is in rebellion, where there is not tranquility of spirit and a sense of justice, of freedom, and of right.
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The history of liberty is a history of resistance.
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Segregation is not humiliating but a benefit.
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I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.
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Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence is a practical document for the use of practical men. It is not a thesis for philosophers, but a whip for tyrants; it is not a theory of government but a program of action.
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A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
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