That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
WOODROW WILSONWhen you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you will have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness and your own duty.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.
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Power consists in one’s capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.
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The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.
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We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world.
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I am sorry for men who do not read the Bible every day. I wonder why they deprive themselves of the strength and pleasure.
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When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.
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No government has ever been beneficent when the attitude of government was that it was taking care of the people. The only freedom consists in the people taking care of the government.
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I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being.
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We are no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and the duress of small groups of dominant men.
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When correcting a child, the goal is to apply light, not heat.
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If the colored people made a mistake in voting for me, they ought to correct it.
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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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You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it.
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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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America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.
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