I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool, the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.
WOODROW WILSONGovernment, in it’s last analysis, is organized force.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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There is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.
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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 was a time when corporations played a minor part in our business affairs, but now they play the chief part, and most men are the servants of corporations.
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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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Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
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We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.
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A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
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Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
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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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America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.
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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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Absolute identity with one’s cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
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Men are not put into this world to go the path of ease, they are put into this world to go the path of pain and struggle.
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Segregation is not humiliating but a benefit.
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A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
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