A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
WOODROW WILSONThere 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.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.
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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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Never murder a man when he’s busy committing suicide.
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We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.
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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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We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.
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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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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 nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what we have been about.
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The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.
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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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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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Responsibility is proportionate to opportunity.
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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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The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.
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