Remember that God ordained that I should be the next president of the United States. Neither you nor any other mortal or mortals could have prevented this.
WOODROW WILSONMen grow by having responsibility laid upon them.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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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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I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool, the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.
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To be free is not necessarily to be wise. Wisdom comes with counsel, with the frank and free conference of untrammeled men united in the common interest.
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Has justice ever grown in the soil of absolute power? Has not justice always come from the … heart and spirit of men who resist power?
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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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Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
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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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Responsibility is proportionate to opportunity.
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The truth is we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless.
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The fewer the desires, the more peace.
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There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.
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If you’ve made up your mind you can do something, you’re absolutely RIGHT.
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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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Government ought to be all outside and no inside. Everybody knows that corruption thrives in secret places, and avoids public places, and we believe it a fair presumption that secrecy means impropriety.
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