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 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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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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We must believe the things We teach our children
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The man who has no vision will undertake no great enterprise.
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The shadows that now lie dark upon our path will soon be dispelled and we shall walk with the light all about us if we but be true to ourselves.
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Progressiveness means not standing still when everything else is moving.
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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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There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.
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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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There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
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The roll of honor consists of the names of meant who have squared their conduct by ideals of duty.
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When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.
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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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Has justice ever grown in the soil of absolute power? Has not justice always come from the … heart and spirit of men who resist power?
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Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
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We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.
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