I am sorry for men who do not read the Bible every day. I wonder why they deprive themselves of the strength and pleasure.
WOODROW WILSONNo 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.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilizationitself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things we have always carried closest to our hearts.
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I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.
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I could see now that a literary education did not fit one for the popular novelist’s trade.Once you had started using words like flavicomous or acroamatic, because you liked the sound of them, you were lost.
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The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.
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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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The way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.
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The masters of the government of the United States are the combined capitalists and manufacturers of the United States.
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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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It does not become America that within her borders, where every man is free to follow the dictates of his conscience, men should raise the cry of church against church. To do that is to strike at the very spirit and heart of America.
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If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
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A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
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Character, my friends, is a byproduct. It is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.
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Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
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The world can be at peace only if the world is stable, and there can be no stability where the will is in rebellion, where there is not tranquility of spirit and a sense of justice, of freedom, and of right.
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Thought cannot conceive of anything that may not be brought to expression. He who first uttered it may be only the suggester, but the doer will appear.
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