A presidential campaign may easily degenerate into a mere personal contest, and so lose its real dignity. There is no indispensable man.
WOODROW WILSONNo man ever saw a government. I live in the midst of the Government of the United States, but I never saw the Government of the United States.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord’s Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
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Absolute identity with one’s cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
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There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.
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No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know
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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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To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fibre of national life.
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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 grow by our dreams.
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Unless justice be done to others it will not be done to us.
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There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.
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We ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialists–believers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic.
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The 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.
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No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
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Every people has a right to choose the sovereignty under which they shall live.
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No man ever saw a government. I live in the midst of the Government of the United States, but I never saw the Government of the United States.
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