That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
WOODROW WILSONThe truth is we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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No government has ever been beneficent when the attitude of government was that it was taking care of the people. The only freedom consists in the people taking care of the government.
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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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I am the friend of peace and mean to preserve it for America so long as I am able. No course of my choosing or of their (nations at war) will lead to war. War can come only by the wilful acts and aggressions of others.
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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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If the colored people made a mistake in voting for me, they ought to correct it.
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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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Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.
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America was born a Christian nation.
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I am sorry for men who do not read the Bible every day. I wonder why they deprive themselves of the strength and pleasure.
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There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.
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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 way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.
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Men grow by having responsibility laid upon them.
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A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
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The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.
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