As a matter of fact and experience, the more power is divided the more irresponsible it becomes.
WOODROW WILSONToday’s greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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I believe that soldiers will bear me out in saying that both come in time of battle. I take it that the moral courage comes in going into the battle, and the physical courage in staying in.
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The man who reads everything is like the man who eats everything: he can digest nothing, and the penalty of crowding one’s mind with other men’s thoughts is to have no thoughts of one’s own.
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Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.
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The princes among us are those who forget themselves and serve others.
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A man’s rootage is more important than his leafage.
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To conquer with arms is to make only a temporary conquest; to conquer the world by earning its esteem is to make a permanent conquest.
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The history of liberty is a history of resistance.
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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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One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
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The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.
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Benevolence does not consist in those who are prosperous pitying and helping those who are not. It consists in fellow feeling that puts you upon actually the same level with the fellow who suffers.
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Unless justice be done to others it will not be done to us.
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The ordinary literary man, even though he be an eminent historian, is ill-fitted to be a mentor in affairs of government. For… things are for the most part very simple in books, and in practical life very complex.
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Only peace between equals can last.
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I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
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