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.
WOODROW WILSONWe came to America, either ourselves or in the persons of our ancestors, to better the ideals of men, to make them see finer things than they had seen before, to get rid of the things that divide and to make sure of the things that unite.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.
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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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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 white men were roused by a mere instinct of self-preservation—until at last there had sprung into existence a great Ku Klux Klan, a veritable empire of the South, to protect the Southern country.
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Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God.
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A man’s rootage is more important than his leafage.
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To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.
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The seed of revolution is repression.
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High society is for those who have stopped working and no longer have anything important to do.
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When correcting a child, the goal is to apply light, not heat.
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I am sorry for men who do not read the Bible every day. I wonder why they deprive themselves of the strength and pleasure.
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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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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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I am not one of those who believe that a great standing army is the means of maintaining peace, because if you build up a great profession those who form parts of it want to exercise their profession.
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Men are not put into this world to go the path of ease, they are put into this world to go the path of pain and struggle.
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