We are not put into this world to sit still and know; we are put into it to act.
WOODROW WILSONI 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.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.
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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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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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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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The world must be made safe for democracy.
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America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness which are derived from the revelations of the Holy Scripture.
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Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God.
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The object of love is to serve, not to win.
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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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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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A radical is one of whom people say ”He goes too far.” A conservative, on the other hand, is one who ”doesn’t go far enough.” Then there is the reactionary, ”one who doesn’t go at all.” All these terms are more or less objectionable, wherefore we have.
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We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class, of necessity, in every society, to forego the privileges of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks.
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The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.
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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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When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.
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