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 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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Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.
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You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand
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That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
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I had rather have everybody on my side than be armed to the teeth.
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The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.
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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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We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.
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The great monopoly in this country is the money monopoly. So long as it exists, our old variety of freedom and individual energy of development are out of the question.
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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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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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Men grow by having responsibility laid upon them.
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To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.
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There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
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Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
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Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.
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