Government ought to be all outside and no inside. Everybody knows that corruption thrives in secret places, and avoids public places, and we believe it a fair presumption that secrecy means impropriety.
WOODROW WILSONGovernment, in it’s last analysis, is organized force.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
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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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We grow by our dreams.
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I have the feeling that he would rather see a good cause fail than succeed if he were not the head of it.
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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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Liberty does not consist in mere declarations of the rights of man. It consists in the translation of those declarations into definite action.
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At every crisis in one’s life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving.
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The fewer the desires, the more peace.
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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 world must be made safe for democracy.
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There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.
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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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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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A presidential campaign may easily degenerate into a mere personal contest, and so lose its real dignity. There is no indispensable man.
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A man’s rootage is more important than his leafage.
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