There is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.
WOODROW WILSONCharacter, my friends, is a byproduct. It is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
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Character, my friends, is a byproduct. It is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.
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A fault which humbles a person is of more use to him or her than a good action which puffs him or her up.
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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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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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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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A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
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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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Power consists in one’s capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.
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I am not one of those who believe that a great standing army is the means of maintaining peace, because if you build up a great profession those who form parts of it want to exercise their profession.
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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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Liberty does not consist in mere declarations of the rights of man. It consists in the translation of those declarations into definite action.
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I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being.
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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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