Power consists in one’s capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.
WOODROW WILSONI have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool, the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.
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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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If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
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Benevolence does not consist in those who are prosperous pitying and helping those who are not. It consists in fellow feeling that puts you upon actually the same level with the fellow who suffers.
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Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
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The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.
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I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool, the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.
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The right is more precious than peace.
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Never murder a man when he’s busy committing suicide.
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Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting.
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We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.
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The man who reads everything is like the man who eats everything: he can digest nothing, and the penalty of crowding one’s mind with other men’s thoughts is to have no thoughts of one’s own.
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That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
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I have the feeling that he would rather see a good cause fail than succeed if he were not the head of it.
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The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.
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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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