It’s harder for a leader to be born in a palace than to be born in a cabin.
WOODROW WILSONGovernment, in it’s last analysis, is organized force.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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Thought cannot conceive of anything that may not be brought to expression. He who first uttered it may be only the suggester, but the doer will appear.
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Only peace between equals can last.
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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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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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Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
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I could see now that a literary education did not fit one for the popular novelist’s trade.Once you had started using words like flavicomous or acroamatic, because you liked the sound of them, you were lost.
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I had rather have everybody on my side than be armed to the teeth.
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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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Any man that resists the present tides that run in the world, will find himself thrown upon a shore so high and barren that it will seem he has been separated from his human kind forever.
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No man ever saw a government. I live in the midst of the Government of the United States, but I never saw the Government of the United States.
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The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.
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Segregation is not humiliating but a benefit.
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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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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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