Men grow by having responsibility laid upon them.
WOODROW WILSONHunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the distemper’s that make an ordered life impossible.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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I do not want a government that will take care of me, I want a government that will make other men take their hands off me so I can take care of myself.
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Is there any man here or any woman, let me say is there any child here, who does not know that the seed of war in the modern world is industrial and commercial rivalry?
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The man who has no vision will undertake no great enterprise.
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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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When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you will have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness and your own duty.
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I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool, the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.
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The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.
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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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The sum of the whole matter is this – our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually.
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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.
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The masters of the government of the United States are the combined capitalists and manufacturers of the United States.
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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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One of the proofs of the divinity of our gospel is the preaching it has survived.
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A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
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It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilizationitself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things we have always carried closest to our hearts.
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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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No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know
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I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.
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A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
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A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what we have been about.
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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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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.’
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High society is for those who have stopped working and no longer have anything important to do.
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The man who disparages music as a luxury and non-essential is doing the nation an injury. Music now, more than ever before, is a national need.
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The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.
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I could see now that a literary education did not fit one for the popular novelist’s trade.Once you had started using words like flavicomous or acroamatic, because you liked the sound of them, you were lost.
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