The way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.
WOODROW WILSONThe ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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As a matter of fact and experience, the more power is divided the more irresponsible it becomes.
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A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
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I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
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Progressiveness means not standing still when everything else is moving.
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The roll of honor consists of the names of meant who have squared their conduct by ideals of duty.
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Power consists in one’s capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.
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It is not an army that we must train for war; it is a nation.
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Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse. Untrammeled reasoning is the indulgence of the philosopher, of the dreamer of sweet dreams.
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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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I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.
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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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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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War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.
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When correcting a child, the goal is to apply light, not heat.
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The right is more precious than peace.
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To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.
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A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
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We are not put into this world to sit still and know; we are put into it to act.
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Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the distemper’s that make an ordered life impossible.
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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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Has justice ever grown in the soil of absolute power? Has not justice always come from the … heart and spirit of men who resist power?
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The world must be made safe for democracy.
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I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool, the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.
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The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
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If you’ve made up your mind you can do something, you’re absolutely RIGHT.
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I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.
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