Never murder a man when he’s busy committing suicide.
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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No man has ever risen to the stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.
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Today’s greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow.
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The fewer the desires, the more peace.
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No people are true Christians who do not think constantly of how they can lift their brother and sister, how they can assist their friends, how they can enlighten mankind, how they can make virtue the rule of conduct in the circle in which they live.
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Every people has a right to choose the sovereignty under which they shall live.
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We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.
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The world must be made safe for democracy.
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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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The ordinary literary man, even though he be an eminent historian, is ill-fitted to be a mentor in affairs of government. For… things are for the most part very simple in books, and in practical life very complex.
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The truth is we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless.
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Government ought to be all outside and no inside. Everybody knows that corruption thrives in secret places, and avoids public places, and we believe it a fair presumption that secrecy means impropriety.
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The history of liberty is a history of resistance.
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Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord’s Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
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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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There’s not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else’s brains.
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