What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.
WOODROW WILSONThe 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.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.
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Big business is not dangerous because it is big, but because its bigness is an unwholesome inflation created by privileges and exemptions which it ought not to enjoy.
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Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God.
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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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Absolute identity with one’s cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
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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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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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Men grow by having responsibility laid upon them.
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We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.
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Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
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The history of liberty is a history of resistance.
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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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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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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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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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