When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.
WOODROW WILSONHunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the distemper’s that make an ordered life impossible.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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The seed of revolution is repression.
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We cannot be separated in interest or divided in purpose. We stand together until the end.
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Government, in it’s last analysis, is organized force.
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Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
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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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Character, my friends, is a byproduct. It is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.
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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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It’s harder for a leader to be born in a palace than to be born in a cabin.
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Is there any man here or any woman, let me say is there any child here, who does not know that the seed of war in the modern world is industrial and commercial rivalry?
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It is the object of learning, not only to satisfy the curiosity and perfect the spirits of ordinary men, but also to advance civilization.
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If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
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It does not become America that within her borders, where every man is free to follow the dictates of his conscience, men should raise the cry of church against church. To do that is to strike at the very spirit and heart of America.
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Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting.
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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.
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We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world.
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