The seed of revolution is repression.
WOODROW WILSONDemocracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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All things come to him who waits – provided he knows what he is waiting for.
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If you wish your children to be Christians you must really take the trouble to be Christian yourselves. Those are the only terms upon which the home will work the gracious miracle.
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Thought cannot conceive of anything that may not be brought to expression. He who first uttered it may be only the suggester, but the doer will appear.
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We are intensely proud of their noble record and are glad to have had the whole world see how irresistible they are in their might when a cause which America holds dear is at stake. The whole nation has reason to be proud of them.
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We are not put into this world to sit still and know; we are put into it to act.
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Any man that resists the present tides that run in the world, will find himself thrown upon a shore so high and barren that it will seem he has been separated from his human kind forever.
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Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence is a practical document for the use of practical men. It is not a thesis for philosophers, but a whip for tyrants; it is not a theory of government but a program of action.
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Segregation is not humiliating but a benefit.
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Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
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The way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.
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We are no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and the duress of small groups of dominant men.
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If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if an hour, I am ready now.
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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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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.
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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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At every crisis in one’s life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving.
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There is something better, if possible, that a man can give than his life. That is his living spirit to a service that is not easy, to resist counsels that are hard to resist, to stand against purposes that are difficult to stand against.
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When correcting a child, the goal is to apply light, not heat.
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I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.
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Today’s greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow.
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Never murder a man when he’s busy committing suicide.
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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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No people are true Christians who do not think constantly of how they can lift their brother and sister, how they can assist their friends, how they can enlighten mankind, how they can make virtue the rule of conduct in the circle in which they live.
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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.
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The fewer the desires, the more peace.
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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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