Responsibility is proportionate to opportunity.
WOODROW WILSONIf the colored people made a mistake in voting for me, they ought to correct it.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being.
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A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.
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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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America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.
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Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.
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You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand
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I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.
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A fault which humbles a person is of more use to him or her than a good action which puffs him or her up.
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To be free is not necessarily to be wise. Wisdom comes with counsel, with the frank and free conference of untrammeled men united in the common interest.
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No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know
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High society is for those who have stopped working and no longer have anything important to do.
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When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you will have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness and your own duty.
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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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Thought cannot conceive of anything that may not be brought to expression. He who first uttered it may be only the suggester, but the doer will appear.
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Progressiveness means not standing still when everything else is moving.
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