It’s harder for a leader to be born in a palace than to be born in a cabin.
WOODROW WILSONThe ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord’s Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
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The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.
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It is the object of learning, not only to satisfy the curiosity and perfect the spirits of ordinary men, but also to advance civilization.
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To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.
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One of the proofs of the divinity of our gospel is the preaching it has survived.
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A fault which humbles a person is of more use to him or her than a good action which puffs him or her up.
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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 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.
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The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
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The right is more precious than peace.
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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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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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We ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialists–believers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic.
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The history of liberty is a history of resistance.
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It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilizationitself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things we have always carried closest to our hearts.
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