Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord’s Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
WOODROW WILSONA radical is one of whom people say ”He goes too far.” A conservative, on the other hand, is one who ”doesn’t go far enough.” Then there is the reactionary, ”one who doesn’t go at all.” All these terms are more or less objectionable, wherefore we have.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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We cannot be separated in interest or divided in purpose. We stand together until the end.
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This was not after all a conventional war, a struggle between equally predacious powers; it was a war to end all wars.
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We are intensely proud of their noble record and are glad to have had the whole world see how irresistible they are in their might when a cause which America holds dear is at stake. The whole nation has reason to be proud of them.
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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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War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.
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I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.
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The truth is we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless.
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The way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.
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Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the distemper’s that make an ordered life impossible.
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We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.
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Government ought to be all outside and no inside. Everybody knows that corruption thrives in secret places, and avoids public places, and we believe it a fair presumption that secrecy means impropriety.
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Liberty does not consist in mere declarations of the rights of man. It consists in the translation of those declarations into definite action.
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I would not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with great respect of the past.
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We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.
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Absolute identity with one’s cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
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