There’s not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else’s brains.
WOODROW WILSONThere was a time when corporations played a minor part in our business affairs, but now they play the chief part, and most men are the servants of corporations.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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We are not put into this world to sit still and know; we are put into it to act.
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One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
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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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Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence is a practical document for the use of practical men. It is not a thesis for philosophers, but a whip for tyrants; it is not a theory of government but a program of action.
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There was a time when corporations played a minor part in our business affairs, but now they play the chief part, and most men are the servants of corporations.
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Unless justice be done to others it will not be done to us.
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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.
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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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Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting.
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Never murder a man when he’s busy committing suicide.
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That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
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Progressiveness means not standing still when everything else is moving.
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It’s harder for a leader to be born in a palace than to be born in a cabin.
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When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.
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One of the proofs of the divinity of our gospel is the preaching it has survived.
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