When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.
WOODROW WILSONWe 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.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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To be free is not necessarily to be wise. Wisdom comes with counsel, with the frank and free conference of untrammeled men united in the common interest.
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The history of liberty is a history of resistance.
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The princes among us are those who forget themselves and serve others.
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America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.
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The cure for bad politics is the same as the cure for tuberculosis. It is living in the open.
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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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To conquer with arms is to make only a temporary conquest; to conquer the world by earning its esteem is to make a permanent conquest.
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I could see now that a literary education did not fit one for the popular novelist’s trade.Once you had started using words like flavicomous or acroamatic, because you liked the sound of them, you were lost.
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I had rather have everybody on my side than be armed to the teeth.
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We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world.
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The roll of honor consists of the names of meant who have squared their conduct by ideals of duty.
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Segregation is not humiliating but a benefit.
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We must believe the things We teach our children
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No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know
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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?
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