The cure for bad politics is the same as the cure for tuberculosis. It is living in the open.
WOODROW WILSONThe way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
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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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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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If the colored people made a mistake in voting for me, they ought to correct it.
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I have the feeling that he would rather see a good cause fail than succeed if he were not the head of it.
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Every people has a right to choose the sovereignty under which they shall live.
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A radical is one of whom people say ”He goes too far.” A conservative, on the other hand, is one who ”doesn’t go far enough.” Then there is the reactionary, ”one who doesn’t go at all.” All these terms are more or less objectionable, wherefore we have.
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We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.
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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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A presidential campaign may easily degenerate into a mere personal contest, and so lose its real dignity. There is no indispensable man.
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A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what we have been about.
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A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
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Conformity will be the only virtue and any man who refuses to conform will have to pay the penalty.
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It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilizationitself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things we have always carried closest to our hearts.
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I had rather have everybody on my side than be armed to the teeth.
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