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 WILSONIf you wish your children to be Christians you must really take the trouble to be Christian yourselves. Those are the only terms upon which the home will work the gracious miracle.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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If the colored people made a mistake in voting for me, they ought to correct it.
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The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.
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Unless justice be done to others it will not be done to us.
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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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A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.
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We are not put into this world to sit still and know; we are put into it to act.
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The princes among us are those who forget themselves and serve others.
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At every crisis in one’s life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving.
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Government ought to be all outside and no inside. Everybody knows that corruption thrives in secret places, and avoids public places, and we believe it a fair presumption that secrecy means impropriety.
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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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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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I do not want a government that will take care of me, I want a government that will make other men take their hands off me so I can take care of myself.
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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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We cannot be separated in interest or divided in purpose. We stand together until the end.
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The fewer the desires, the more peace.
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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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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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Segregation is not humiliating but a benefit.
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The great monopoly in this country is the money monopoly. So long as it exists, our old variety of freedom and individual energy of development are out of the question.
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To be free is not necessarily to be wise. Wisdom comes with counsel, with the frank and free conference of untrammeled men united in the common interest.
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The way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.
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Men grow by having responsibility laid upon them.
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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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The Bible is the one supreme source of revelation of the meaning of life, the nature of God and spiritual nature and need of men. It is the only guide of life which really leads the spirit in the way of peace and salvation.
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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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The object of love is to serve, not to win.
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