You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand
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There 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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You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand
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You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it.
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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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All things come to him who waits – provided he knows what he is waiting for.
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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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The great monopoly in this country is the money monopoly. So long as it exists, our old variety of freedom and individual energy of development are out of the question.
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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.
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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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I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.
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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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Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence is a practical document for the use of practical men. It is not a thesis for philosophers, but a whip for tyrants; it is not a theory of government but a program of action.
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Men grow by having responsibility laid upon them.
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The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them.
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Unless justice be done to others it will not be done to us.
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It does not become America that within her borders, where every man is free to follow the dictates of his conscience, men should raise the cry of church against church. To do that is to strike at the very spirit and heart of America.
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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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