If you’ve made up your mind you can do something, you’re absolutely RIGHT.
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.
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A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
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If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
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Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting.
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We are no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and the duress of small groups of dominant men.
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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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Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse. Untrammeled reasoning is the indulgence of the philosopher, of the dreamer of sweet dreams.
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I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool, the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.
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As a matter of fact and experience, the more power is divided the more irresponsible it becomes.
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There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.
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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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A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
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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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Is there any man here or any woman, let me say is there any child here, who does not know that the seed of war in the modern world is industrial and commercial rivalry?
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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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Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
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The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
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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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The masters of the government of the United States are the combined capitalists and manufacturers of the United States.
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We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.
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Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.
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One of the proofs of the divinity of our gospel is the preaching it has survived.
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We cannot be separated in interest or divided in purpose. We stand together until the end.
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We grow by our dreams.
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What every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence.
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A man’s rootage is more important than his leafage.
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I had rather have everybody on my side than be armed to the teeth.
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