The seed of revolution is repression.
WOODROW WILSONThere must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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The roll of honor consists of the names of meant who have squared their conduct by ideals of duty.
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The way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.
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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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Power consists in one’s capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.
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It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilizationitself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things we have always carried closest to our hearts.
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A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what we have been about.
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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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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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Progressiveness means not standing still when everything else is moving.
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No man has ever risen to the stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.
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We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.
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I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being.
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Any man that resists the present tides that run in the world, will find himself thrown upon a shore so high and barren that it will seem he has been separated from his human kind forever.
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I would not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with great respect of the past.
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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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