Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the distemper’s that make an ordered life impossible.
WOODROW WILSONI believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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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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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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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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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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High society is for those who have stopped working and no longer have anything important to do.
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The world can be at peace only if the world is stable, and there can be no stability where the will is in rebellion, where there is not tranquility of spirit and a sense of justice, of freedom, and of right.
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When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.
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Absolute identity with one’s cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
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There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
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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 are not put into this world to sit still and know; we are put into it to act.
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The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.
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If you wish your children to be Christians you must really take the trouble to be Christian yourselves. Those are the only terms upon which the home will work the gracious miracle.
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It is the object of learning, not only to satisfy the curiosity and perfect the spirits of ordinary men, but also to advance civilization.
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Character, my friends, is a byproduct. It is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.
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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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A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what we have been about.
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A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
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Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
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We must believe the things We teach our children
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To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fibre of national life.
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Is there any man here or any woman, let me say is there any child here, who does not know that the seed of war in the modern world is industrial and commercial rivalry?
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I had rather have everybody on my side than be armed to the teeth.
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Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.
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No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.
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The white men were roused by a mere instinct of self-preservation—until at last there had sprung into existence a great Ku Klux Klan, a veritable empire of the South, to protect the Southern country.
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