The way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.
WOODROW WILSONThe ordinary literary man, even though he be an eminent historian, is ill-fitted to be a mentor in affairs of government. For… things are for the most part very simple in books, and in practical life very complex.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.
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Every people has a right to choose the sovereignty under which they shall live.
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The shadows that now lie dark upon our path will soon be dispelled and we shall walk with the light all about us if we but be true to ourselves.
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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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Government, in it’s last analysis, is organized force.
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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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If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
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No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
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We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.
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War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.
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There’s not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else’s brains.
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Benevolence does not consist in those who are prosperous pitying and helping those who are not. It consists in fellow feeling that puts you upon actually the same level with the fellow who suffers.
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We cannot be separated in interest or divided in purpose. We stand together until the end.
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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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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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