It’s harder for a leader to be born in a palace than to be born in a cabin.
WOODROW WILSONThe man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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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.
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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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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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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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Government, in it’s last analysis, is organized force.
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You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it.
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That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
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I believe that soldiers will bear me out in saying that both come in time of battle. I take it that the moral courage comes in going into the battle, and the physical courage in staying in.
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Remember that God ordained that I should be the next president of the United States. Neither you nor any other mortal or mortals could have prevented this.
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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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We grow by our dreams.
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It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilizationitself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things we have always carried closest to our hearts.
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The history of liberty is a history of resistance.
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Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
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We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.
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