To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fibre of national life.
WOODROW WILSONAny 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.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.
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Benevolence does not consist in those who are prosperous pitying and helping those who are not. It consists in fellow feeling that puts you upon actually the same level with the fellow who suffers.
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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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I would not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with great respect of the past.
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I could see now that a literary education did not fit one for the popular novelist’s trade.Once you had started using words like flavicomous or acroamatic, because you liked the sound of them, you were lost.
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If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. Character is a by-product, and any man who devotes himself to its cultivation in his own case will become a selfish prig.
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The sum of the whole matter is this – our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually.
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As a matter of fact and experience, the more power is divided the more irresponsible it becomes.
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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 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.’
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What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.
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When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.
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One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
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Absolute identity with one’s cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
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We are intensely proud of their noble record and are glad to have had the whole world see how irresistible they are in their might when a cause which America holds dear is at stake. The whole nation has reason to be proud of them.
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