When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.
WOODROW WILSONWe must believe the things We teach our children
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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It’s harder for a leader to be born in a palace than to be born in a cabin.
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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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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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Government, in it’s last analysis, is organized force.
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When correcting a child, the goal is to apply light, not heat.
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If the colored people made a mistake in voting for me, they ought to correct it.
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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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To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.
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Men grow by having responsibility laid upon them.
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America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.
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The cure for bad politics is the same as the cure for tuberculosis. It is living in the open.
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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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Only peace between equals can last.
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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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That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
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