A radical is one of whom people say ”He goes too far.” A conservative, on the other hand, is one who ”doesn’t go far enough.” Then there is the reactionary, ”one who doesn’t go at all.” All these terms are more or less objectionable, wherefore we have.
WOODROW WILSONHunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the distemper’s that make an ordered life impossible.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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One of the proofs of the divinity of our gospel is the preaching it has survived.
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Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting.
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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.
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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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High society is for those who have stopped working and no longer have anything important to do.
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Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the distemper’s that make an ordered life impossible.
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The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
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Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.
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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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I have the feeling that he would rather see a good cause fail than succeed if he were not the head of it.
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There 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.
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America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.
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The roll of honor consists of the names of meant who have squared their conduct by ideals of duty.
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I am the friend of peace and mean to preserve it for America so long as I am able. No course of my choosing or of their (nations at war) will lead to war. War can come only by the wilful acts and aggressions of others.
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