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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 Wilson

America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness which are derived from the revelations of the Holy Scripture.
WOODROW WILSON

Born Devotion Holy Scripture
A presidential campaign may easily degenerate into a mere personal contest, and so lose its real dignity. There is no indispensable man.
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Dignity Easy Lose Man Personal President
The man who has no vision will undertake no great enterprise.
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Enterprise Greatness Man Vision Willing
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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Ideal Identity Nation People Time World
No man has ever risen to the stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.
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Himself Hood Man Rise Service Spiritual
What is the use of voting? We know that the machines of both parties are subsidized by the same persons, and therefore it is useless to turn in either direction.
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Direction Machine Party Person Vote
It’s harder for a leader to be born in a palace than to be born in a cabin.
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Born Hard Leadership Palace
If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
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Change Enemy Inspirational Try
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.
WOODROW WILSON

Better Counseling Difficult Life Man Possible Stand
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.
WOODROW WILSON

Character Health Lose Lost Wealth Yourself
No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
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Empty God Stomach Worship
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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Equality Power Struggle War
There is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.
WOODROW WILSON

Breathe Organization Power Talk Watch
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.
WOODROW WILSON

Action Document Government Independence Practical Program Theory
Character, my friends, is a byproduct. It is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.
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Character Daily Friendship Greatness
I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being.
WOODROW WILSON

Believe Democracy Energy Human Myself

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.

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