There was a time when corporations played a minor part in our business affairs, but now they play the chief part, and most men are the servants of corporations.
WOODROW WILSONThere must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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Men are not put into this world to go the path of ease, they are put into this world to go the path of pain and struggle.
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What is the use of voting? We know that the machines of both parties are subsidized by the same persons, and therefore it is useless to turn in either direction.
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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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The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.
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All things come to him who waits – provided he knows what he is waiting for.
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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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I 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.
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A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
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A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
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No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know
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The ordinary literary man, even though he be an eminent historian, is ill-fitted to be a mentor in affairs of government. For… things are for the most part very simple in books, and in practical life very complex.
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The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.
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I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.
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The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
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No man has ever risen to the stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.
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