There is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.
WOODROW WILSONA 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.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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We ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialists–believers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic.
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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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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 seed of revolution is repression.
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America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.
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The sum of the whole matter is this – our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually.
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Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
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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 truth is we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless.
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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?
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When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.
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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.
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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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The man who disparages music as a luxury and non-essential is doing the nation an injury. Music now, more than ever before, is a national need.
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The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them.
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