There is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.
WOODROW WILSONYou are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand
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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A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what we have been about.
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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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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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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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If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.
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A fault which humbles a person is of more use to him or her than a good action which puffs him or her up.
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The seed of revolution is repression.
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The shadows that now lie dark upon our path will soon be dispelled and we shall walk with the light all about us if we but be true to ourselves.
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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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A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.
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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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What every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence.
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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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It is not an army that we must train for war; it is a nation.
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