To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fibre of national life.
WOODROW WILSONA man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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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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Segregation is not humiliating but a benefit.
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The cure for bad politics is the same as the cure for tuberculosis. It is living in the open.
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We grow by our dreams.
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America was born a Christian nation.
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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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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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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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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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Conformity will be the only virtue and any man who refuses to conform will have to pay the penalty.
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We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.
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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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When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.
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The way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.
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I am the friend of peace and mean to preserve it for America so long as I am able. No course of my choosing or of their (nations at war) will lead to war. War can come only by the wilful acts and aggressions of others.
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