The way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.
WOODROW WILSONWhat we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.
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The Bible is the one supreme source of revelation of the meaning of life, the nature of God and spiritual nature and need of men. It is the only guide of life which really leads the spirit in the way of peace and salvation.
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We are not put into this world to sit still and know; we are put into it to act.
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To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.
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I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being.
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Men grow by having responsibility laid upon them.
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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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Every people has a right to choose the sovereignty under which they shall live.
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A fault which humbles a person is of more use to him or her than a good action which puffs him or her up.
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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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What is the use of voting? We know that the machines of both parties are subsidized by the same persons, and therefore it is useless to turn in either direction.
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The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.
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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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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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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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