We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.
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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Conformity will be the only virtue and any man who refuses to conform will have to pay the penalty.
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Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting.
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The shadows that now lie dark upon our path will soon be dispelled and we shall walk with the light all about us if we but be true to ourselves.
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The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
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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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The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.
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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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Character, my friends, is a byproduct. It is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.
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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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The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.
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What every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence.
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There is something better, if possible, that a man can give than his life. That is his living spirit to a service that is not easy, to resist counsels that are hard to resist, to stand against purposes that are difficult to stand against.
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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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The cure for bad politics is the same as the cure for tuberculosis. It is living in the open.
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Never murder a man when he’s busy committing suicide.
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