The ordinary literary man, even though he be an eminent historian, is ill-fitted to be a mentor in affairs of government. For… things are for the most part very simple in books, and in practical life very complex.
WOODROW WILSONThe 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.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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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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We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.
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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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Government, in it’s last analysis, is organized force.
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You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it.
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One of the proofs of the divinity of our gospel is the preaching it has survived.
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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 a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.
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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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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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There’s not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else’s brains.
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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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Benevolence does not consist in those who are prosperous pitying and helping those who are not. It consists in fellow feeling that puts you upon actually the same level with the fellow who suffers.
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A man’s rootage is more important than his leafage.
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We came to America, either ourselves or in the persons of our ancestors, to better the ideals of men, to make them see finer things than they had seen before, to get rid of the things that divide and to make sure of the things that unite.
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Has justice ever grown in the soil of absolute power? Has not justice always come from the … heart and spirit of men who resist power?
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A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.
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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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When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you will have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness and your own duty.
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America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness which are derived from the revelations of the Holy Scripture.
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The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.
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We are no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and the duress of small groups of dominant men.
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The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.
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If you’ve made up your mind you can do something, you’re absolutely RIGHT.
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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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Unless justice be done to others it will not be done to us.
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