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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.

Woodrow Wilson

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.
WOODROW WILSON

Care Government Hands Man Myself
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.
WOODROW WILSON

Man Mindset Oneself Reading Thinking
Government, in it’s last analysis, is organized force.
WOODROW WILSON

Analysis Force Government
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.
WOODROW WILSON

Ideal Identity Nation People Time World
It’s harder for a leader to be born in a palace than to be born in a cabin.
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Born Hard Leadership Palace
War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.
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Affair Declare God Human War
Conformity will be the only virtue and any man who refuses to conform will have to pay the penalty.
WOODROW WILSON

Man Pay Penalty Refuse Virtue
The way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.
WOODROW WILSON

Financial Mobile Stop Way
As a matter of fact and experience, the more power is divided the more irresponsible it becomes.
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Division Experience Fact Irresponsible Power
Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse. Untrammeled reasoning is the indulgence of the philosopher, of the dreamer of sweet dreams.
WOODROW WILSON

Close Dreams Luxury Philosophy Thinking
To conquer with arms is to make only a temporary conquest; to conquer the world by earning its esteem is to make a permanent conquest.
WOODROW WILSON

Confidence Temporary Value World
When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you will have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness and your own duty.
WOODROW WILSON

God Happiness Heart Reading Word Yourself
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.
WOODROW WILSON

Democracy Design Government Hands Interest People
I have the feeling that he would rather see a good cause fail than succeed if he were not the head of it.
WOODROW WILSON

Failure Feeling Goodness Head
No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
WOODROW WILSON

Empty God Stomach Worship
Men grow by having responsibility laid upon them.
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Growth Man Responsibility

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