I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being.
WOODROW WILSONUncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse. Untrammeled reasoning is the indulgence of the philosopher, of the dreamer of sweet dreams.
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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Government, in it’s last analysis, is organized force.
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Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting.
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Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.
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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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There is something better, if possible, that a man can give than his life. That is his living spirit to a service that is not easy, to resist counsels that are hard to resist, to stand against purposes that are difficult to stand against.
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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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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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It is not an army that we must train for war; it is a nation.
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“Genius is divine perseverance.” Divine patience I believe he originally used, perseverance is better in my opinion. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have.
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If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.
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A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
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We must believe the things We teach our children
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A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
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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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