Big business is not dangerous because it is big, but because its bigness is an unwholesome inflation created by privileges and exemptions which it ought not to enjoy.
WOODROW WILSONGovernment, in it’s last analysis, is organized force.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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The fewer the desires, the more peace.
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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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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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We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class, of necessity, in every society, to forego the privileges of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks.
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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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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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To conquer with arms is to make only a temporary conquest; to conquer the world by earning its esteem is to make a permanent conquest.
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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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We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.
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The seed of revolution is repression.
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I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being.
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Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
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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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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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The sum of the whole matter is this – our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually.
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