Is there any man here or any woman, let me say is there any child here, who does not know that the seed of war in the modern world is industrial and commercial rivalry?
WOODROW WILSONGovernment 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.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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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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The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.
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America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.
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Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
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The masters of the government of the United States are the combined capitalists and manufacturers of the United States.
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The history of liberty is a history of resistance.
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The man who has no vision will undertake no great enterprise.
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Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.
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If the colored people made a mistake in voting for me, they ought to correct it.
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The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.
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When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you will have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness and your own duty.
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The Bible is the one supreme source of revelation of the meaning of life, the nature of God and spiritual nature and need of men. It is the only guide of life which really leads the spirit in the way of peace and salvation.
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I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
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You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it.
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There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.
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