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.
WOODROW WILSONUnless justice be done to others it will not be done to us.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.
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The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.
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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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Self-determination is not a mere phrase. It is an imperative principle of action, which statesmen will henceforth ignore at their peril.
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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.
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Is there any man here or any woman, let me say is there any child here, who does not know that the seed of war in the modern world is industrial and commercial rivalry?
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We are no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and the duress of small groups of dominant men.
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The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.
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A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
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A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.
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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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No man ever saw a government. I live in the midst of the Government of the United States, but I never saw the Government of the United States.
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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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No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.
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What is the use of voting? We know that the machines of both parties are subsidized by the same persons, and therefore it is useless to turn in either direction.
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