We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.
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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Responsibility is proportionate to opportunity.
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Big business is not dangerous because it is big, but because its bigness is an unwholesome inflation created by privileges and exemptions which it ought not to enjoy.
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The man who has no vision will undertake no great enterprise.
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Character, my friends, is a byproduct. It is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.
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Every people has a right to choose the sovereignty under which they shall live.
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The fewer the desires, the more peace.
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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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We came to America, either ourselves or in the persons of our ancestors, to better the ideals of men, to make them see finer things than they had seen before, to get rid of the things that divide and to make sure of the things that unite.
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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 whole purpose of democracy is that we may hold counsel with one another, so as not to depend upon the understanding of one man.
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I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.
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If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
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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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Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.
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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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The seed of revolution is repression.
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I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool, the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.
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America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.
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Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
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I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being.
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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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Never murder a man when he’s busy committing suicide.
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What every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence.
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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 right is more precious than peace.
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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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