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 WILSONA fault which humbles a person is of more use to him or her than a good action which puffs him or her up.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilizationitself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things we have always carried closest to our hearts.
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The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.
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I am not one of those who believe that a great standing army is the means of maintaining peace, because if you build up a great profession those who form parts of it want to exercise their profession.
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I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being.
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We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.
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I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool, the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.
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We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.
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No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know
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Segregation is not humiliating but a benefit.
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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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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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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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The Bible is the one supreme source of revelation of the meaning of life, the nature of God and spiritual nature and need of men. It is the only guide of life which really leads the spirit in the way of peace and salvation.
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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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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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