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.
WOODROW WILSONIf you’ve made up your mind you can do something, you’re absolutely RIGHT.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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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 not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
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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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The seed of revolution is repression.
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As a matter of fact and experience, the more power is divided the more irresponsible it becomes.
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Self-determination is not a mere phrase. It is an imperative principle of action, which statesmen will henceforth ignore at their peril.
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The man who disparages music as a luxury and non-essential is doing the nation an injury. Music now, more than ever before, is a national need.
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What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.
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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.
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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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Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
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Absolute identity with one’s cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
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The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.
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The roll of honor consists of the names of meant who have squared their conduct by ideals of duty.
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I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.
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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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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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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 are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.
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One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
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A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.
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The masters of the government of the United States are the combined capitalists and manufacturers of the United States.
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If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. Character is a by-product, and any man who devotes himself to its cultivation in his own case will become a selfish prig.
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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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There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
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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.
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