What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.
WOODROW WILSONIf you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. Character is a by-product, and any man who devotes himself to its cultivation in his own case will become a selfish prig.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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Big business is not dangerous because it is big, but because its bigness is an unwholesome inflation created by privileges and exemptions which it ought not to enjoy.
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Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.
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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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I am the friend of peace and mean to preserve it for America so long as I am able. No course of my choosing or of their (nations at war) will lead to war. War can come only by the wilful acts and aggressions of others.
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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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You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
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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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Only peace between equals can last.
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There was a time when corporations played a minor part in our business affairs, but now they play the chief part, and most men are the servants of corporations.
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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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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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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.
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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 use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.
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We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.
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