You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand
WOODROW WILSONA conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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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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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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To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.
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If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. Character is a by-product, and any man who devotes himself to its cultivation in his own case will become a selfish prig.
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We must believe the things We teach our children
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I have the feeling that he would rather see a good cause fail than succeed if he were not the head of it.
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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.
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Every people has a right to choose the sovereignty under which they shall live.
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Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.
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If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
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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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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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A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
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Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the distemper’s that make an ordered life impossible.
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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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