Power consists in one’s capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.
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 man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.
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The masters of the government of the United States are the combined capitalists and manufacturers of the United States.
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It is not an army that we must train for war; it is a nation.
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We are not put into this world to sit still and know; we are put into it to act.
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We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.
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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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What is the use of voting? We know that the machines of both parties are subsidized by the same persons, and therefore it is useless to turn in either direction.
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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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The man who has no vision will undertake no great enterprise.
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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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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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The world can be at peace only if the world is stable, and there can be no stability where the will is in rebellion, where there is not tranquility of spirit and a sense of justice, of freedom, and of right.
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America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.
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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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There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.
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