We ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialists–believers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic.
WOODROW WILSONIt’s harder for a leader to be born in a palace than to be born in a cabin.
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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Liberty does not consist in mere declarations of the rights of man. It consists in the translation of those declarations into definite action.
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To be free is not necessarily to be wise. Wisdom comes with counsel, with the frank and free conference of untrammeled men united in the common interest.
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A fault which humbles a person is of more use to him or her than a good action which puffs him or her up.
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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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I would not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with great respect of the past.
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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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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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We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.
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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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I had rather have everybody on my side than be armed to the teeth.
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The princes among us are those who forget themselves and serve others.
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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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I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.
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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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