Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse. Untrammeled reasoning is the indulgence of the philosopher, of the dreamer of sweet dreams.
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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When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.
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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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The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.
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The truth is we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless.
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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 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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I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.
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I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.
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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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If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if an hour, I am ready now.
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What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.
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Unless justice be done to others it will not be done to us.
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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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Conformity will be the only virtue and any man who refuses to conform will have to pay the penalty.
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Liberty does not consist in mere declarations of the rights of man. It consists in the translation of those declarations into definite action.
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