Every people has a right to choose the sovereignty under which they shall live.
WOODROW WILSONAs a matter of fact and experience, the more power is divided the more irresponsible it becomes.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.
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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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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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Today’s greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow.
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I am sorry for men who do not read the Bible every day. I wonder why they deprive themselves of the strength and pleasure.
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A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.
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There’s not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else’s brains.
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We 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.
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I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.
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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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I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
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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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The man who has no vision will undertake no great enterprise.
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“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.
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We must believe the things We teach our children
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