I could see now that a literary education did not fit one for the popular novelist’s trade.Once you had started using words like flavicomous or acroamatic, because you liked the sound of them, you were lost.
WOODROW WILSONThe seed of revolution is repression.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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One of the proofs of the divinity of our gospel is the preaching it has survived.
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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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A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
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The whole purpose of democracy is that we may hold counsel with one another, so as not to depend upon the understanding of one man.
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The man who has no vision will undertake no great enterprise.
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To be free is not necessarily to be wise. Wisdom comes with counsel, with the frank and free conference of untrammeled men united in the common interest.
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There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
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America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.
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Government, in it’s last analysis, is organized force.
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Responsibility is proportionate to opportunity.
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I had rather have everybody on my side than be armed to the teeth.
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As a matter of fact and experience, the more power is divided the more irresponsible it becomes.
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A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.
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Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.
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We cannot be separated in interest or divided in purpose. We stand together until the end.
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