There was a time when corporations played a minor part in our business affairs, but now they play the chief part, and most men are the servants of corporations.
WOODROW WILSONWar isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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I have the feeling that he would rather see a good cause fail than succeed if he were not the head of it.
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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 does not become America that within her borders, where every man is free to follow the dictates of his conscience, men should raise the cry of church against church. To do that is to strike at the very spirit and heart of America.
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The fewer the desires, the more peace.
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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 man who disparages music as a luxury and non-essential is doing the nation an injury. Music now, more than ever before, is a national need.
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The princes among us are those who forget themselves and serve others.
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I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being.
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We must believe the things We teach our children
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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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Progressiveness means not standing still when everything else is moving.
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The world can be at peace only if the world is stable, and there can be no stability where the will is in rebellion, where there is not tranquility of spirit and a sense of justice, of freedom, and of right.
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I am the friend of peace and mean to preserve it for America so long as I am able. No course of my choosing or of their (nations at war) will lead to war. War can come only by the wilful acts and aggressions of others.
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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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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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