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.
WOODROW WILSONThe flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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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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America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.
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One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
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I had rather have everybody on my side than be armed to the teeth.
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The princes among us are those who forget themselves and serve others.
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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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No people are true Christians who do not think constantly of how they can lift their brother and sister, how they can assist their friends, how they can enlighten mankind, how they can make virtue the rule of conduct in the circle in which they live.
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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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Only peace between equals can last.
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America was born a Christian nation.
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The right is more precious than peace.
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Never murder a man when he’s busy committing suicide.
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No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.
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We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.
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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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It is not an army that we must train for war; it is a nation.
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Men are not put into this world to go the path of ease, they are put into this world to go the path of pain and struggle.
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What every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence.
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We must believe the things We teach our children
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There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
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The great monopoly in this country is the money monopoly. So long as it exists, our old variety of freedom and individual energy of development are out of the question.
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The man who has no vision will undertake no great enterprise.
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We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world.
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The way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.
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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.
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