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 WILSONA conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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What is the use of voting? We know that the machines of both parties are subsidized by the same persons, and therefore it is useless to turn in either direction.
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Progressiveness means not standing still when everything else is moving.
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Self-determination is not a mere phrase. It is an imperative principle of action, which statesmen will henceforth ignore at their peril.
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Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.
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Absolute identity with one’s cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
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We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.
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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.
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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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High society is for those who have stopped working and no longer have anything important to do.
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The truth is we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless.
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Men grow by having responsibility laid upon them.
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A fault which humbles a person is of more use to him or her than a good action which puffs him or her up.
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I have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty, and business liberty, and every other kind of liberty, in the phrase that is common in the sporting world, ‘A free field and no favor.’
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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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What every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence.
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