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.
WOODROW WILSONIt is not an army that we must train for war; it is a nation.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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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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High society is for those who have stopped working and no longer have anything important to do.
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I am sorry for men who do not read the Bible every day. I wonder why they deprive themselves of the strength and pleasure.
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The princes among us are those who forget themselves and serve others.
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Today’s greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow.
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One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
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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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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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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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A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.
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If you lose your wealth, you have lost nothing; if you lose your health, you have lost something; but if you lose your character, you have lost everything.
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The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.
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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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The great monopoly in this country is the money monopoly. So long as it exists, our old variety of freedom and individual energy of development are out of the question.
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America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness which are derived from the revelations of the Holy Scripture.
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