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.
WOODROW WILSONThe great monopoly in this country is the money monopoly. So long as it exists, our old variety of freedom and individual energy of development are out of the question.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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The object of love is to serve, not to win.
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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.
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The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.
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Benevolence does not consist in those who are prosperous pitying and helping those who are not. It consists in fellow feeling that puts you upon actually the same level with the fellow who suffers.
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We ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialists–believers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic.
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Thought cannot conceive of anything that may not be brought to expression. He who first uttered it may be only the suggester, but the doer will appear.
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To conquer with arms is to make only a temporary conquest; to conquer the world by earning its esteem is to make a permanent conquest.
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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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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 cure for bad politics is the same as the cure for tuberculosis. It is living in the open.
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To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.
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Government ought to be all outside and no inside. Everybody knows that corruption thrives in secret places, and avoids public places, and we believe it a fair presumption that secrecy means impropriety.
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I am the friend of peace and mean to preserve it for America so long as I am able. No course of my choosing or of their (nations at war) will lead to war. War can come only by the wilful acts and aggressions of others.
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The world must be made safe for democracy.
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When correcting a child, the goal is to apply light, not heat.
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