When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.
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.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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This was not after all a conventional war, a struggle between equally predacious powers; it was a war to end all wars.
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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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There 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.
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Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord’s Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
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We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.
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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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A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
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Character, my friends, is a byproduct. It is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.
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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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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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I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.
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America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.
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Never murder a man when he’s busy committing suicide.
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The princes among us are those who forget themselves and serve others.
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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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