Has justice ever grown in the soil of absolute power? Has not justice always come from the … heart and spirit of men who resist power?
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 I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.
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Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God.
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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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Responsibility is proportionate to opportunity.
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The masters of the government of the United States are the combined capitalists and manufacturers of the United States.
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Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.
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Is there any man here or any woman, let me say is there any child here, who does not know that the seed of war in the modern world is industrial and commercial rivalry?
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Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
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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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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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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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Character, my friends, is a byproduct. It is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.
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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.
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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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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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