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.
WOODROW WILSONI 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.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
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I do not want a government that will take care of me, I want a government that will make other men take their hands off me so I can take care of myself.
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Every people has a right to choose the sovereignty under which they shall live.
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Any man that resists the present tides that run in the world, will find himself thrown upon a shore so high and barren that it will seem he has been separated from his human kind forever.
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Men grow by having responsibility laid upon them.
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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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America was born a Christian nation.
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When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.
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All things come to him who waits – provided he knows what he is waiting for.
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A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
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A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
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The fewer the desires, the more peace.
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Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.
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I would not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with great respect of the past.
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To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.
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