Big business is not dangerous because it is big, but because its bigness is an unwholesome inflation created by privileges and exemptions which it ought not to enjoy.
WOODROW WILSONWar isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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I am not one of those who believe that a great standing army is the means of maintaining peace, because if you build up a great profession those who form parts of it want to exercise their profession.
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I believe that soldiers will bear me out in saying that both come in time of battle. I take it that the moral courage comes in going into the battle, and the physical courage in staying in.
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I have the feeling that he would rather see a good cause fail than succeed if he were not the head of it.
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All things come to him who waits – provided he knows what he is waiting for.
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To conquer with arms is to make only a temporary conquest; to conquer the world by earning its esteem is to make a permanent conquest.
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Responsibility is proportionate to opportunity.
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The fewer the desires, the more peace.
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The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.
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No people are true Christians who do not think constantly of how they can lift their brother and sister, how they can assist their friends, how they can enlighten mankind, how they can make virtue the rule of conduct in the circle in which they live.
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Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the distemper’s that make an ordered life impossible.
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We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.
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If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
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This was not after all a conventional war, a struggle between equally predacious powers; it was a war to end all wars.
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One of the proofs of the divinity of our gospel is the preaching it has survived.
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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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The object of love is to serve, not to win.
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I am the friend of peace and mean to preserve it for America so long as I am able. No course of my choosing or of their (nations at war) will lead to war. War can come only by the wilful acts and aggressions of others.
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The history of liberty is a history of resistance.
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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 use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.
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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 world must be made safe for democracy.
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The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.
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Remember that God ordained that I should be the next president of the United States. Neither you nor any other mortal or mortals could have prevented this.
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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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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.
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