The white men were roused by a mere instinct of self-preservation—until at last there had sprung into existence a great Ku Klux Klan, a veritable empire of the South, to protect the Southern country.
WOODROW WILSONThere is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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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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I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.
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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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A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
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Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.
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The Bible is the one supreme source of revelation of the meaning of life, the nature of God and spiritual nature and need of men. It is the only guide of life which really leads the spirit in the way of peace and salvation.
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Progressiveness means not standing still when everything else is moving.
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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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We ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialists–believers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic.
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All things come to him who waits – provided he knows what he is waiting for.
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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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When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you will have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness and your own duty.
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No government has ever been beneficent when the attitude of government was that it was taking care of the people. The only freedom consists in the people taking care of the government.
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No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.
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We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.
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