There is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.
WOODROW WILSONWe grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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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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No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.
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We are no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and the duress of small groups of dominant men.
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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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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.
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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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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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Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.
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A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
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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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As a matter of fact and experience, the more power is divided the more irresponsible it becomes.
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I believe that soldiers will bear me out in saying that both come in time of battle. I take it that the moral courage comes in going into the battle, and the physical courage in staying in.
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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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I have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty, and business liberty, and every other kind of liberty, in the phrase that is common in the sporting world, ‘A free field and no favor.’
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Men are not put into this world to go the path of ease, they are put into this world to go the path of pain and struggle.
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