No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.
WOODROW WILSONAmerica is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it.
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The sum of the whole matter is this – our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually.
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America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.
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I do not want a government that will take care of me, I want a government that will make other men take their hands off me so I can take care of myself.
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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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Has justice ever grown in the soil of absolute power? Has not justice always come from the … heart and spirit of men who resist power?
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The object of love is to serve, not to win.
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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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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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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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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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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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I believe that soldiers will bear me out in saying that both come in time of battle. I take it that the moral courage comes in going into the battle, and the physical courage in staying in.
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No people are true Christians who do not think constantly of how they can lift their brother and sister, how they can assist their friends, how they can enlighten mankind, how they can make virtue the rule of conduct in the circle in which they live.
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The white men were roused by a mere instinct of self-preservation—until at last there had sprung into existence a great Ku Klux Klan, a veritable empire of the South, to protect the Southern country.
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