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 WILSONThere was a time when corporations played a minor part in our business affairs, but now they play the chief part, and most men are the servants of corporations.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness which are derived from the revelations of the Holy Scripture.
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Segregation is not humiliating but a benefit.
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The cure for bad politics is the same as the cure for tuberculosis. It is living in the open.
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I have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty, and business liberty, and every other kind of liberty, in the phrase that is common in the sporting world, ‘A free field and no favor.’
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No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
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America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.
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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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We grow by our dreams.
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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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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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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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I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.
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Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God.
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If you’ve made up your mind you can do something, you’re absolutely RIGHT.
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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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