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.
WOODROW WILSONHas justice ever grown in the soil of absolute power? Has not justice always come from the … heart and spirit of men who resist power?
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them.
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The ordinary literary man, even though he be an eminent historian, is ill-fitted to be a mentor in affairs of government. For… things are for the most part very simple in books, and in practical life very complex.
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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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If you’ve made up your mind you can do something, you’re absolutely RIGHT.
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Government, in it’s last analysis, is organized force.
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The world must be made safe for democracy.
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The object of love is to serve, not to win.
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What every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence.
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I had rather have everybody on my side than be armed to the teeth.
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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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There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
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The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
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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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High society is for those who have stopped working and no longer have anything important to do.
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The fewer the desires, the more peace.
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