It’s harder for a leader to be born in a palace than to be born in a cabin.
WOODROW WILSONTo fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fibre of national life.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
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The sum of the whole matter is this – our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually.
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America was born a Christian nation.
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One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
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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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Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
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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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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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Never murder a man when he’s busy committing suicide.
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Progressiveness means not standing still when everything else is moving.
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What is the use of voting? We know that the machines of both parties are subsidized by the same persons, and therefore it is useless to turn in either direction.
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We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.
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I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.
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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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No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
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