No man ever saw a government. I live in the midst of the Government of the United States, but I never saw the Government of the United States.
WOODROW WILSONIf you’ve made up your mind you can do something, you’re absolutely RIGHT.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.
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It’s harder for a leader to be born in a palace than to be born in a cabin.
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Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God.
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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 man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
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Liberty does not consist in mere declarations of the rights of man. It consists in the translation of those declarations into definite action.
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Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse. Untrammeled reasoning is the indulgence of the philosopher, of the dreamer of sweet dreams.
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What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.
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The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.
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The man who reads everything is like the man who eats everything: he can digest nothing, and the penalty of crowding one’s mind with other men’s thoughts is to have no thoughts of one’s own.
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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.
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Self-determination is not a mere phrase. It is an imperative principle of action, which statesmen will henceforth ignore at their peril.
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Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
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There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.
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The seed of revolution is repression.
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