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 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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We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.
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There’s not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else’s brains.
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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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This was not after all a conventional war, a struggle between equally predacious powers; it was a war to end all wars.
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Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence is a practical document for the use of practical men. It is not a thesis for philosophers, but a whip for tyrants; it is not a theory of government but a program of action.
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When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you will have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness and your own duty.
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When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.
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We grow by our dreams.
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We are not put into this world to sit still and know; we are put into it to act.
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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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Responsibility is proportionate to opportunity.
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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.
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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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The cure for bad politics is the same as the cure for tuberculosis. It is living in the open.
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The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.
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