Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence is a practical document for the use of practical men. It is not a thesis for philosophers, but a whip for tyrants; it is not a theory of government but a program of action.
WOODROW WILSONThe man who disparages music as a luxury and non-essential is doing the nation an injury. Music now, more than ever before, is a national need.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand
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What is the use of voting? We know that the machines of both parties are subsidized by the same persons, and therefore it is useless to turn in either direction.
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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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Every people has a right to choose the sovereignty under which they shall live.
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No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
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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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Conformity will be the only virtue and any man who refuses to conform will have to pay the penalty.
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Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse. Untrammeled reasoning is the indulgence of the philosopher, of the dreamer of sweet dreams.
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If the colored people made a mistake in voting for me, they ought to correct it.
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I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.
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The whole purpose of democracy is that we may hold counsel with one another, so as not to depend upon the understanding of one man.
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Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord’s Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
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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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The object of love is to serve, not to win.
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Has justice ever grown in the soil of absolute power? Has not justice always come from the … heart and spirit of men who resist power?
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