When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.
WOODROW WILSONIs 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?
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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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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The whole purpose of democracy is that we may hold counsel with one another, so as not to depend upon the understanding of one man.
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There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.
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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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Big business is not dangerous because it is big, but because its bigness is an unwholesome inflation created by privileges and exemptions which it ought not to enjoy.
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The right is more precious than peace.
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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.
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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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No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
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What is the use of voting? We know that the machines of both parties are subsidized by the same persons, and therefore it is useless to turn in either direction.
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The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
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Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse. Untrammeled reasoning is the indulgence of the philosopher, of the dreamer of sweet dreams.
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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 man who has no vision will undertake no great enterprise.
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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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