The seed of revolution is repression.
WOODROW WILSONA presidential campaign may easily degenerate into a mere personal contest, and so lose its real dignity. There is no indispensable man.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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Never murder a man when he’s busy committing suicide.
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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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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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Absolute identity with one’s cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
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I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
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This was not after all a conventional war, a struggle between equally predacious powers; it was a war to end all wars.
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The sum of the whole matter is this – our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually.
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What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.
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No people are true Christians who do not think constantly of how they can lift their brother and sister, how they can assist their friends, how they can enlighten mankind, how they can make virtue the rule of conduct in the circle in which they live.
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One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
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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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Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
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We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.
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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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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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