One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
WOODROW WILSONThere 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.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
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The history of liberty is a history of resistance.
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Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
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It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilizationitself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things we have always carried closest to our hearts.
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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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The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.
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To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fibre of national life.
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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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Progressiveness means not standing still when everything else is moving.
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Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse. Untrammeled reasoning is the indulgence of the philosopher, of the dreamer of sweet dreams.
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The way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.
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We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.
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To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.
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America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.
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A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.
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I am sorry for men who do not read the Bible every day. I wonder why they deprive themselves of the strength and pleasure.
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If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
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It does not become America that within her borders, where every man is free to follow the dictates of his conscience, men should raise the cry of church against church. To do that is to strike at the very spirit and heart of America.
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The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.
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As a matter of fact and experience, the more power is divided the more irresponsible it becomes.
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There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
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The object of love is to serve, not to win.
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There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.
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War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.
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What is the use of voting? We know that the machines of both parties are subsidized by the same persons, and therefore it is useless to turn in either direction.
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If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.
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