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 WILSON
All things come to him who waits – provided he knows what he is waiting for.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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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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I would not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with great respect of the past.
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The right is more precious than peace.
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You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
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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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Every people has a right to choose the sovereignty under which they shall live.
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The history of liberty is a history of resistance.
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No man has ever risen to the stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.
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We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world.
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The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.
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The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
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Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the distemper’s that make an ordered life impossible.
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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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I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.
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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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I have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty, and business liberty, and every other kind of liberty, in the phrase that is common in the sporting world, ‘A free field and no favor.’
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