The seed of revolution is repression.
WOODROW WILSONThe only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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The object of love is to serve, not to win.
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The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.
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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.
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No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.
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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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A radical is one of whom people say ”He goes too far.” A conservative, on the other hand, is one who ”doesn’t go far enough.” Then there is the reactionary, ”one who doesn’t go at all.” All these terms are more or less objectionable, wherefore we have.
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War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.
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Government, in it’s last analysis, is organized force.
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Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the distemper’s that make an ordered life impossible.
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Government ought to be all outside and no inside. Everybody knows that corruption thrives in secret places, and avoids public places, and we believe it a fair presumption that secrecy means impropriety.
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The world must be made safe for democracy.
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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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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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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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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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