I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being.
WOODROW WILSON“Genius is divine perseverance.” Divine patience I believe he originally used, perseverance is better in my opinion. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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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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If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
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The way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.
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What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.
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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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There’s not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else’s brains.
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Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
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When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.
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When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.
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We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.
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I had rather have everybody on my side than be armed to the teeth.
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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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The man who reads everything is like the man who eats everything: he can digest nothing, and the penalty of crowding one’s mind with other men’s thoughts is to have no thoughts of one’s own.
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Remember that God ordained that I should be the next president of the United States. Neither you nor any other mortal or mortals could have prevented this.
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The masters of the government of the United States are the combined capitalists and manufacturers of the United States.
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