Power consists in one’s capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.
WOODROW WILSONThe ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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Remember that God ordained that I should be the next president of the United States. Neither you nor any other mortal or mortals could have prevented this.
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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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When correcting a child, the goal is to apply light, not heat.
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The whole purpose of democracy is that we may hold counsel with one another, so as not to depend upon the understanding of one man.
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The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
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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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We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.
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War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.
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What is the use of voting? We know that the machines of both parties are subsidized by the same persons, and therefore it is useless to turn in either direction.
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I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
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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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Thought cannot conceive of anything that may not be brought to expression. He who first uttered it may be only the suggester, but the doer will appear.
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What every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence.
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Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting.
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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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Any man that resists the present tides that run in the world, will find himself thrown upon a shore so high and barren that it will seem he has been separated from his human kind forever.
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Progressiveness means not standing still when everything else is moving.
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Absolute identity with one’s cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
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Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
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The man who has no vision will undertake no great enterprise.
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The world must be made safe for democracy.
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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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If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if an hour, I am ready now.
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No man ever saw a government. I live in the midst of the Government of the United States, but I never saw the Government of the United States.
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When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.
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It is not an army that we must train for war; it is a nation.
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