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.
WOODROW WILSONNo man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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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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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 world can be at peace only if the world is stable, and there can be no stability where the will is in rebellion, where there is not tranquility of spirit and a sense of justice, of freedom, and of right.
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One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
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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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We must believe the things We teach our children
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Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.
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America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.
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When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.
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We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class, of necessity, in every society, to forego the privileges of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks.
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A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
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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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The man who reads everything is like the man who eats everything: he can digest nothing, and the penalty of crowding one’s mind with other men’s thoughts is to have no thoughts of one’s own.
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The way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.
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The object of love is to serve, not to win.
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