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 way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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If you’ve made up your mind you can do something, you’re absolutely RIGHT.
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The seed of revolution is repression.
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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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Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse. Untrammeled reasoning is the indulgence of the philosopher, of the dreamer of sweet dreams.
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I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.
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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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It does not become America that within her borders, where every man is free to follow the dictates of his conscience, men should raise the cry of church against church. To do that is to strike at the very spirit and heart of America.
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A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
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That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
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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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Responsibility is proportionate to opportunity.
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A man’s rootage is more important than his leafage.
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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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High society is for those who have stopped working and no longer have anything important to do.
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I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool, the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.
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