Any 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.
WOODROW WILSONThe whole purpose of democracy is that we may hold counsel with one another, so as not to depend upon the understanding of one man.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
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Self-determination is not a mere phrase. It is an imperative principle of action, which statesmen will henceforth ignore at their peril.
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Today’s greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow.
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To be free is not necessarily to be wise. Wisdom comes with counsel, with the frank and free conference of untrammeled men united in the common interest.
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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.
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Government ought to be all outside and no inside. Everybody knows that corruption thrives in secret places, and avoids public places, and we believe it a fair presumption that secrecy means impropriety.
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The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.
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Is there any man here or any woman, let me say is there any child here, who does not know that the seed of war in the modern world is industrial and commercial rivalry?
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I had rather have everybody on my side than be armed to the teeth.
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The man who reads everything is like the man who eats everything: he can digest nothing, and the penalty of crowding one’s mind with other men’s thoughts is to have no thoughts of one’s own.
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We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.
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That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
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America was born a Christian nation.
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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.
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No man ever saw a government. I live in the midst of the Government of the United States, but I never saw the Government of the United States.
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