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?
WOODROW WILSONTo fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fibre of national life.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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We must believe the things We teach our children
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A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
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A presidential campaign may easily degenerate into a mere personal contest, and so lose its real dignity. There is no indispensable man.
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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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America was born a Christian nation.
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The seed of revolution is repression.
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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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We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.
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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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That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
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The object of love is to serve, not to win.
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The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.
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We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.
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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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You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
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