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 WILSONJefferson’s Declaration of Independence is a practical document for the use of practical men. It is not a thesis for philosophers, but a whip for tyrants; it is not a theory of government but a program of action.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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Today’s greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow.
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Responsibility is proportionate to opportunity.
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High society is for those who have stopped working and no longer have anything important to do.
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Government, in it’s last analysis, is organized force.
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Government 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.
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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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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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I have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty, and business liberty, and every other kind of liberty, in the phrase that is common in the sporting world, ‘A free field and no favor.’
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The great monopoly in this country is the money monopoly. So long as it exists, our old variety of freedom and individual energy of development are out of the question.
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The whole purpose of democracy is that we may hold counsel with one another, so as not to depend upon the understanding of one man.
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The object of love is to serve, not to win.
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Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence is a practical document for the use of practical men. It is not a thesis for philosophers, but a whip for tyrants; it is not a theory of government but a program of action.
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One of the proofs of the divinity of our gospel is the preaching it has survived.
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The fewer the desires, the more peace.
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Character, my friends, is a byproduct. It is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.
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