As a matter of fact and experience, the more power is divided the more irresponsible it becomes.
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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If you wish your children to be Christians you must really take the trouble to be Christian yourselves. Those are the only terms upon which the home will work the gracious miracle.
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The right is more precious than peace.
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The masters of the government of the United States are the combined capitalists and manufacturers of the United States.
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The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.
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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 are intensely proud of their noble record and are glad to have had the whole world see how irresistible they are in their might when a cause which America holds dear is at stake. The whole nation has reason to be proud of them.
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I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
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Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the distemper’s that make an ordered life impossible.
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There’s not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else’s brains.
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All things come to him who waits – provided he knows what he is waiting for.
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There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
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If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. Character is a by-product, and any man who devotes himself to its cultivation in his own case will become a selfish prig.
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No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
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Progressiveness means not standing still when everything else is moving.
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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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High society is for those who have stopped working and no longer have anything important to do.
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You 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.
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The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.
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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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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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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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The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them.
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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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The sum of the whole matter is this – our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually.
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Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
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The great monopoly in this country is the money monopoly. So long as it exists, our old variety of freedom and individual energy of development are out of the question.
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