The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
WOODROW WILSONThe man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
WOODROW WILSONThere 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 WILSONThe seed of revolution is repression.
WOODROW WILSONThat a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
WOODROW WILSONI am sorry for men who do not read the Bible every day. I wonder why they deprive themselves of the strength and pleasure.
WOODROW WILSONI have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.
WOODROW WILSON“Genius is divine perseverance.” Divine patience I believe he originally used, perseverance is better in my opinion. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have.
WOODROW WILSONThe princes among us are those who forget themselves and serve others.
WOODROW WILSONNo student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know
WOODROW WILSONGovernment 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.
WOODROW WILSONThe 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.
WOODROW WILSONWhat we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.
WOODROW WILSONA fault which humbles a person is of more use to him or her than a good action which puffs him or her up.
WOODROW WILSONWe 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.
WOODROW WILSONAll things come to him who waits – provided he knows what he is waiting for.
WOODROW WILSONWhen men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.
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