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Power Quotes by Woodrow Wilson
- Every country is renewed out of the unknown ranks and not out of the ranks of those already famous and powerful and in control.
- The history of liberty is the history of limitations on the power of government, not the increase of it. When we resist, therefore, the concentration…
- As a matter of fact and experience, the more power is divided the more irresponsible it becomes.
- There is a power so organized, so subtle, so complete, and so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak…
- Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of…
- Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the…
- Our object now, as then, is to vindicate the principles of peace and justice in the life of the world as against selfish and autocratic…
- There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.
- Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.
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