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.
WOODROW WILSONIs 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?
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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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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America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.
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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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I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool, the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.
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Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God.
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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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We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world.
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Absolute identity with one’s cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
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I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.
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There is something better, if possible, that a man can give than his life. That is his living spirit to a service that is not easy, to resist counsels that are hard to resist, to stand against purposes that are difficult to stand against.
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The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.
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I do not want a government that will take care of me, I want a government that will make other men take their hands off me so I can take care of myself.
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The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
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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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Men grow by having responsibility laid upon them.
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