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.
WOODROW WILSONProgressiveness means not standing still when everything else is moving.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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“Genius is divine perseverance.” Divine patience I believe he originally used, perseverance is better in my opinion. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have.
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I believe that soldiers will bear me out in saying that both come in time of battle. I take it that the moral courage comes in going into the battle, and the physical courage in staying in.
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The seed of revolution is repression.
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There’s not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else’s brains.
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I do not want a government that will take care of me, I want a government that will make other men take their hands off me so I can take care of myself.
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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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America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.
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Has justice ever grown in the soil of absolute power? Has not justice always come from the … heart and spirit of men who resist power?
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The man who reads everything is like the man who eats everything: he can digest nothing, and the penalty of crowding one’s mind with other men’s thoughts is to have no thoughts of one’s own.
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Conformity will be the only virtue and any man who refuses to conform will have to pay the penalty.
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Today’s greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow.
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Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse. Untrammeled reasoning is the indulgence of the philosopher, of the dreamer of sweet dreams.
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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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If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
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There was a time when corporations played a minor part in our business affairs, but now they play the chief part, and most men are the servants of corporations.
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