Government, in it’s last analysis, is organized force.
WOODROW WILSONThere’s not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else’s brains.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.
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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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The fewer the desires, the more peace.
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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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We ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialists–believers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic.
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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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You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it.
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The truth is we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless.
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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.
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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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Character, my friends, is a byproduct. It is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.
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The history of liberty is a history of resistance.
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It’s harder for a leader to be born in a palace than to be born in a cabin.
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Remember that God ordained that I should be the next president of the United States. Neither you nor any other mortal or mortals could have prevented this.
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To conquer with arms is to make only a temporary conquest; to conquer the world by earning its esteem is to make a permanent conquest.
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