The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them.
WOODROW WILSONThe great monopoly in this country is the money monopoly. So long as it exists, our old variety of freedom and individual energy of development are out of the question.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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The world must be made safe for democracy.
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We grow by our dreams.
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Big business is not dangerous because it is big, but because its bigness is an unwholesome inflation created by privileges and exemptions which it ought not to enjoy.
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If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if an hour, I am ready now.
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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 would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.
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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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Men grow by having responsibility laid upon them.
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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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When correcting a child, the goal is to apply light, not heat.
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I had rather have everybody on my side than be armed to the teeth.
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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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Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.
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The fewer the desires, the more peace.
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We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.
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