Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
WOODROW WILSONA little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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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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This was not after all a conventional war, a struggle between equally predacious powers; it was a war to end all wars.
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We came to America, either ourselves or in the persons of our ancestors, to better the ideals of men, to make them see finer things than they had seen before, to get rid of the things that divide and to make sure of the things that unite.
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I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool, the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.
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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.
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You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it.
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The masters of the government of the United States are the combined capitalists and manufacturers of the United States.
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There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.
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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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Thought cannot conceive of anything that may not be brought to expression. He who first uttered it may be only the suggester, but the doer will appear.
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If you’ve made up your mind you can do something, you’re absolutely RIGHT.
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Responsibility is proportionate to opportunity.
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We ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialists–believers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic.
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If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.
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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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When correcting a child, the goal is to apply light, not heat.
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We cannot be separated in interest or divided in purpose. We stand together until the end.
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It is the object of learning, not only to satisfy the curiosity and perfect the spirits of ordinary men, but also to advance civilization.
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I am not one of those who believe that a great standing army is the means of maintaining peace, because if you build up a great profession those who form parts of it want to exercise their profession.
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Unless justice be done to others it will not be done to us.
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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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Only peace between equals can last.
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America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.
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“Genius is divine perseverance.” Divine patience I believe he originally used, perseverance is better in my opinion. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have.
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When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.
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Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord’s Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
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