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.
WOODROW WILSONLoyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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Has justice ever grown in the soil of absolute power? Has not justice always come from the … heart and spirit of men who resist power?
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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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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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One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
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The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them.
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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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The man who has no vision will undertake no great enterprise.
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To conquer with arms is to make only a temporary conquest; to conquer the world by earning its esteem is to make a permanent conquest.
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Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord’s Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
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To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fibre of national life.
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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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The masters of the government of the United States are the combined capitalists and manufacturers of the United States.
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The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.
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I could see now that a literary education did not fit one for the popular novelist’s trade.Once you had started using words like flavicomous or acroamatic, because you liked the sound of them, you were lost.
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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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