It’s harder for a leader to be born in a palace than to be born in a cabin.
WOODROW WILSONAt every crisis in one’s life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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America was born a Christian nation.
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I do not want a government that will take care of me, I want a government that will make other men take their hands off me so I can take care of myself.
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This was not after all a conventional war, a struggle between equally predacious powers; it was a war to end all wars.
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No people are true Christians who do not think constantly of how they can lift their brother and sister, how they can assist their friends, how they can enlighten mankind, how they can make virtue the rule of conduct in the circle in which they live.
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I am the friend of peace and mean to preserve it for America so long as I am able. No course of my choosing or of their (nations at war) will lead to war. War can come only by the wilful acts and aggressions of others.
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Today’s greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow.
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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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The man who disparages music as a luxury and non-essential is doing the nation an injury. Music now, more than ever before, is a national need.
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Has justice ever grown in the soil of absolute power? Has not justice always come from the … heart and spirit of men who resist power?
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Government, in it’s last analysis, is organized force.
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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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Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.
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A fault which humbles a person is of more use to him or her than a good action which puffs him or her up.
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There is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.
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The world must be made safe for democracy.
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