No government has ever been beneficent when the attitude of government was that it was taking care of the people. The only freedom consists in the people taking care of the government.
WOODROW WILSONThe way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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As a matter of fact and experience, the more power is divided the more irresponsible it becomes.
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Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
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There’s not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else’s brains.
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A radical is one of whom people say ”He goes too far.” A conservative, on the other hand, is one who ”doesn’t go far enough.” Then there is the reactionary, ”one who doesn’t go at all.” All these terms are more or less objectionable, wherefore we have.
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The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.
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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 lose your wealth, you have lost nothing; if you lose your health, you have lost something; but if you lose your character, you have lost everything.
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I had rather have everybody on my side than be armed to the teeth.
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We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich 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 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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A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
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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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America was born a Christian nation.
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I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.
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