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.
WOODROW WILSONIf a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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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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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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That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
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I am not one of those who believe that a great standing army is the means of maintaining peace, because if you build up a great profession those who form parts of it want to exercise their profession.
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I do not want a government that will take care of me, I want a government that will make other men take their hands off me so I can take care of myself.
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Thought cannot conceive of anything that may not be brought to expression. He who first uttered it may be only the suggester, but the doer will appear.
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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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To conquer with arms is to make only a temporary conquest; to conquer the world by earning its esteem is to make a permanent conquest.
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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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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 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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Government, in it’s last analysis, is organized force.
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It’s harder for a leader to be born in a palace than to be born in a cabin.
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A presidential campaign may easily degenerate into a mere personal contest, and so lose its real dignity. There is no indispensable man.
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The man who has no vision will undertake no great enterprise.
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