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 WILSONThe man who has no vision will undertake no great enterprise.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand
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A fault which humbles a person is of more use to him or her than a good action which puffs him or her up.
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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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I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
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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 man who reads everything is like the man who eats everything: he can digest nothing, and the penalty of crowding one’s mind with other men’s thoughts is to have no thoughts of one’s own.
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We came to America, either ourselves or in the persons of our ancestors, to better the ideals of men, to make them see finer things than they had seen before, to get rid of the things that divide and to make sure of the things that unite.
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Segregation is not humiliating but a benefit.
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If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if an hour, I am ready now.
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The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.
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I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.
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No people are true Christians who do not think constantly of how they can lift their brother and sister, how they can assist their friends, how they can enlighten mankind, how they can make virtue the rule of conduct in the circle in which they live.
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The whole purpose of democracy is that we may hold counsel with one another, so as not to depend upon the understanding of one man.
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The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.
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I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.
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