There is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.
WOODROW WILSONThe history of liberty is a history of resistance.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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The 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.
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Today’s greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow.
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Men grow by having responsibility laid upon them.
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Power consists in one’s capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.
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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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A fault which humbles a person is of more use to him or her than a good action which puffs him or her up.
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The whole purpose of democracy is that we may hold counsel with one another, so as not to depend upon the understanding of one man.
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That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
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If you wish your children to be Christians you must really take the trouble to be Christian yourselves. Those are the only terms upon which the home will work the gracious miracle.
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Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord’s Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
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This was not after all a conventional war, a struggle between equally predacious powers; it was a war to end all wars.
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I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being.
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We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.
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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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Progressiveness means not standing still when everything else is moving.
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