The way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.
WOODROW WILSONWe are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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This was not after all a conventional war, a struggle between equally predacious powers; it was a war to end all wars.
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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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Every people has a right to choose the sovereignty under which they shall live.
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The world must be made safe for democracy.
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Only peace between equals can last.
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We are no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and the duress of small groups of dominant men.
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I am sorry for men who do not read the Bible every day. I wonder why they deprive themselves of the strength and pleasure.
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There is something better, if possible, that a man can give than his life. That is his living spirit to a service that is not easy, to resist counsels that are hard to resist, to stand against purposes that are difficult to stand against.
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If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.
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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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We are not put into this world to sit still and know; we are put into it to act.
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Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.
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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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There’s not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else’s brains.
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No man ever saw a government. I live in the midst of the Government of the United States, but I never saw the Government of the United States.
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