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.
WOODROW WILSONYou are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.
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America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness which are derived from the revelations of the Holy Scripture.
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I do not want a government that will take care of me, I want a government that will make other men take their hands off me so I can take care of myself.
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To be free is not necessarily to be wise. Wisdom comes with counsel, with the frank and free conference of untrammeled men united in the common interest.
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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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I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.
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I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.
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I would not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with great respect of the past.
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We grow by our dreams.
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I believe that soldiers will bear me out in saying that both come in time of battle. I take it that the moral courage comes in going into the battle, and the physical courage in staying in.
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We are not put into this world to sit still and know; we are put into it to act.
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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 have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty, and business liberty, and every other kind of liberty, in the phrase that is common in the sporting world, ‘A free field and no favor.’
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Progressiveness means not standing still when everything else is moving.
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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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