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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.

Woodrow Wilson

When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.
WOODROW WILSON

Freedom Man Sacred War
If 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.
WOODROW WILSON

Character Devotion Himself Man People Thinking
Today’s greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow.
WOODROW WILSON

Device Future Greatness Save
A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
WOODROW WILSON

Government Help Man Representation Willing
I could see now that a literary education did not fit one for the popular novelist’s trade.Once you had started using words like flavicomous or acroamatic, because you liked the sound of them, you were lost.
WOODROW WILSON

Education Literacy Lost Sound Start Yourself
A fault which humbles a person is of more use to him or her than a good action which puffs him or her up.
WOODROW WILSON

Action Goodness Herself Himself Humble Mistake
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.
WOODROW WILSON

Action Appearance Expression Suggestion
We came to America, either ourselves or in the persons of our ancestors, to better the ideals of men, to make them see finer things than they had seen before, to get rid of the things that divide and to make sure of the things that unite.
WOODROW WILSON

Ancestor Fine Ideal Man Person Unity
Self-determination is not a mere phrase. It is an imperative principle of action, which statesmen will henceforth ignore at their peril.
WOODROW WILSON

Determination Ignorance Phrase Work
Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse. Untrammeled reasoning is the indulgence of the philosopher, of the dreamer of sweet dreams.
WOODROW WILSON

Close Dreams Luxury Philosophy Thinking
It’s harder for a leader to be born in a palace than to be born in a cabin.
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Born Hard Leadership Palace
At every crisis in one’s life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving.
WOODROW WILSON

Crisis Life Salvation Thinking
The masters of the government of the United States are the combined capitalists and manufacturers of the United States.
WOODROW WILSON

Capital Combination Government Manufacturer
There is something better, if possible, that a man can give than his life. That is his living spirit to a service that is not easy, to resist counsels that are hard to resist, to stand against purposes that are difficult to stand against.
WOODROW WILSON

Better Counseling Difficult Life Man Possible Stand
I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.
WOODROW WILSON

Book Man Myself Possible Reading Talk Writing
If you lose your wealth, you have lost nothing; if you lose your health, you have lost something; but if you lose your character, you have lost everything.
WOODROW WILSON

Character Health Lose Lost Wealth Yourself

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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