A presidential campaign may easily degenerate into a mere personal contest, and so lose its real dignity. There is no indispensable man.
WOODROW WILSONThe roll of honor consists of the names of meant who have squared their conduct by ideals of duty.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.
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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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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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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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A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
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Today’s greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow.
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We ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialists–believers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic.
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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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We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.
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There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
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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.
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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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You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it.
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America was born a Christian nation.
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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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