That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
WOODROW WILSONI am the friend of peace and mean to preserve it for America so long as I am able. No course of my choosing or of their (nations at war) will lead to war. War can come only by the wilful acts and aggressions of others.
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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The roll of honor consists of the names of meant who have squared their conduct by ideals of duty.
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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 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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There is something better, if possible, that a man can give than his life. That is his living spirit to a service that is not easy, to resist counsels that are hard to resist, to stand against purposes that are difficult to stand against.
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The sum of the whole matter is this – our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually.
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Character, my friends, is a byproduct. It is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.
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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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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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A man’s rootage is more important than his leafage.
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If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if an hour, I am ready now.
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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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Absolute identity with one’s cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
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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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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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