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.
WOODROW WILSONNo 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.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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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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We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.
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Self-determination is not a mere phrase. It is an imperative principle of action, which statesmen will henceforth ignore at their peril.
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A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
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The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.
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The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.
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We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world.
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A man’s rootage is more important than his leafage.
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I could see now that a literary education did not fit one for the popular novelist’s trade.Once you had started using words like flavicomous or acroamatic, because you liked the sound of them, you were lost.
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Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
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High society is for those who have stopped working and no longer have anything important to do.
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If you’ve made up your mind you can do something, you’re absolutely RIGHT.
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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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Only peace between equals can last.
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The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.
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