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 WILSONThe roll of honor consists of the names of meant who have squared their conduct by ideals of duty.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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The 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.
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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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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 I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.
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The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
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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 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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The masters of the government of the United States are the combined capitalists and manufacturers of the United States.
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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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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.
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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 ever saw a government. I live in the midst of the Government of the United States, but I never saw the Government of the United States.
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Segregation is not humiliating but a benefit.
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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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Government, in it’s last analysis, is organized force.
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