Government ought to be all outside and no inside. Everybody knows that corruption thrives in secret places, and avoids public places, and we believe it a fair presumption that secrecy means impropriety.
WOODROW WILSONJefferson’s Declaration of Independence is a practical document for the use of practical men. It is not a thesis for philosophers, but a whip for tyrants; it is not a theory of government but a program of action.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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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 disparages music as a luxury and non-essential is doing the nation an injury. Music now, more than ever before, is a national need.
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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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It does not become America that within her borders, where every man is free to follow the dictates of his conscience, men should raise the cry of church against church. To do that is to strike at the very spirit and heart of America.
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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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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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High society is for those who have stopped working and no longer have anything important to do.
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I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
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The seed of revolution is repression.
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If you’ve made up your mind you can do something, you’re absolutely RIGHT.
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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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Power consists in one’s capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.
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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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Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
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The way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.
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