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.’
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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Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
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To be free is not necessarily to be wise. Wisdom comes with counsel, with the frank and free conference of untrammeled men united in the common interest.
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The world can be at peace only if the world is stable, and there can be no stability where the will is in rebellion, where there is not tranquility of spirit and a sense of justice, of freedom, and of right.
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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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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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A radical is one of whom people say ”He goes too far.” A conservative, on the other hand, is one who ”doesn’t go far enough.” Then there is the reactionary, ”one who doesn’t go at all.” All these terms are more or less objectionable, wherefore we have.
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No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
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We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.
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Responsibility is proportionate to opportunity.
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To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.
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What every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence.
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I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.
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We ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialists–believers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic.
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America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness which are derived from the revelations of the Holy Scripture.
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No 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.
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