That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
WOODROW WILSONPower consists in one’s capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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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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Segregation is not humiliating but a benefit.
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The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.
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To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.
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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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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.
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Benevolence does not consist in those who are prosperous pitying and helping those who are not. It consists in fellow feeling that puts you upon actually the same level with the fellow who suffers.
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We are not put into this world to sit still and know; we are put into it to act.
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If you lose your wealth, you have lost nothing; if you lose your health, you have lost something; but if you lose your character, you have lost everything.
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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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I am sorry for men who do not read the Bible every day. I wonder why they deprive themselves of the strength and pleasure.
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Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
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All things come to him who waits – provided he knows what he is waiting for.
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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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If you’ve made up your mind you can do something, you’re absolutely RIGHT.
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