That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
WOODROW WILSONToday’s greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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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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The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.
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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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I believe that soldiers will bear me out in saying that both come in time of battle. I take it that the moral courage comes in going into the battle, and the physical courage in staying in.
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One of the proofs of the divinity of our gospel is the preaching it has survived.
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There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.
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The cure for bad politics is the same as the cure for tuberculosis. It is living in the open.
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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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We are no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and the duress of small groups of dominant men.
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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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We came to America, either ourselves or in the persons of our ancestors, to better the ideals of men, to make them see finer things than they had seen before, to get rid of the things that divide and to make sure of the things that unite.
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No people are true Christians who do not think constantly of how they can lift their brother and sister, how they can assist their friends, how they can enlighten mankind, how they can make virtue the rule of conduct in the circle in which they live.
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We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world.
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A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.
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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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