We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.
WOODROW WILSONNo 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.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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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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The history of liberty is a history of resistance.
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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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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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“Genius is divine perseverance.” Divine patience I believe he originally used, perseverance is better in my opinion. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have.
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America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.
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Government ought to be all outside and no inside. Everybody knows that corruption thrives in secret places, and avoids public places, and we believe it a fair presumption that secrecy means impropriety.
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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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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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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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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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A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
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You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
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The way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.
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The fewer the desires, the more peace.
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