War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.
WOODROW WILSONGovernment 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.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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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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I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
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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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No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
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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.
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No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.
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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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Men grow by having responsibility laid upon them.
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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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A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
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A radical is one of whom people say ”He goes too far.” A conservative, on the other hand, is one who ”doesn’t go far enough.” Then there is the reactionary, ”one who doesn’t go at all.” All these terms are more or less objectionable, wherefore we have.
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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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If you lose your wealth, you have lost nothing; if you lose your health, you have lost something; but if you lose your character, you have lost everything.
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A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.
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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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