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.
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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The history of liberty is a history of resistance.
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Unless justice be done to others it will not be done to us.
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I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.
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One of the proofs of the divinity of our gospel is the preaching it has survived.
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Government, in it’s last analysis, is organized force.
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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.
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I have the feeling that he would rather see a good cause fail than succeed if he were not the head of it.
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The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.
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It does not become America that within her borders, where every man is free to follow the dictates of his conscience, men should raise the cry of church against church. To do that is to strike at the very spirit and heart of America.
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We ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialists–believers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic.
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Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
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A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
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We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.
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As a matter of fact and experience, the more power is divided the more irresponsible it becomes.
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To conquer with arms is to make only a temporary conquest; to conquer the world by earning its esteem is to make a permanent conquest.
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