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.’
WOODROW WILSONThe flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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The way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.
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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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Any man that resists the present tides that run in the world, will find himself thrown upon a shore so high and barren that it will seem he has been separated from his human kind forever.
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Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God.
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We grow by our dreams.
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Never murder a man when he’s busy committing suicide.
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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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“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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The whole purpose of democracy is that we may hold counsel with one another, so as not to depend upon the understanding of one man.
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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.
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A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
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At every crisis in one’s life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving.
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The world can be at peace only if the world is stable, and there can be no stability where the will is in rebellion, where there is not tranquility of spirit and a sense of justice, of freedom, and of right.
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Today’s greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow.
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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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