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.’
WOODROW WILSONThought 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.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.
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A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
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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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We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.
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Responsibility is proportionate to opportunity.
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What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.
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Self-determination is not a mere phrase. It is an imperative principle of action, which statesmen will henceforth ignore at their peril.
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The man who has no vision will undertake no great enterprise.
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No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.
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The white men were roused by a mere instinct of self-preservation—until at last there had sprung into existence a great Ku Klux Klan, a veritable empire of the South, to protect the Southern country.
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Liberty does not consist in mere declarations of the rights of man. It consists in the translation of those declarations into definite action.
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There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.
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The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.
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What every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence.
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We cannot be separated in interest or divided in purpose. We stand together until the end.
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