What is the use of voting? We know that the machines of both parties are subsidized by the same persons, and therefore it is useless to turn in either direction.
WOODROW WILSONBenevolence 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.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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At every crisis in one’s life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving.
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We are intensely proud of their noble record and are glad to have had the whole world see how irresistible they are in their might when a cause which America holds dear is at stake. The whole nation has reason to be proud of them.
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Men grow by having responsibility laid upon them.
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The princes among us are those who forget themselves and serve others.
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The great monopoly in this country is the money monopoly. So long as it exists, our old variety of freedom and individual energy of development are out of the question.
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There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
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I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.
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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 have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty, and business liberty, and every other kind of liberty, in the phrase that is common in the sporting world, ‘A free field and no favor.’
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There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.
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I have the feeling that he would rather see a good cause fail than succeed if he were not the head of it.
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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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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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I am not one of those who believe that a great standing army is the means of maintaining peace, because if you build up a great profession those who form parts of it want to exercise their profession.
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I had rather have everybody on my side than be armed to the teeth.
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