There’s not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else’s brains.
WOODROW WILSONI believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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The great monopoly in this country is the money monopoly. So long as it exists, our old variety of freedom and individual energy of development are out of the question.
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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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You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand
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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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The roll of honor consists of the names of meant who have squared their conduct by ideals of duty.
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The history of liberty is a history of resistance.
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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.
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As a matter of fact and experience, the more power is divided the more irresponsible it becomes.
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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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Men grow by having responsibility laid upon them.
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Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
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I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.
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High society is for those who have stopped working and no longer have anything important to do.
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I am sorry for men who do not read the Bible every day. I wonder why they deprive themselves of the strength and pleasure.
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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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