We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world.
WOODROW WILSONThe man who has no vision will undertake no great enterprise.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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Self-determination is not a mere phrase. It is an imperative principle of action, which statesmen will henceforth ignore at their peril.
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A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
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To conquer with arms is to make only a temporary conquest; to conquer the world by earning its esteem is to make a permanent conquest.
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Men grow by having responsibility laid upon them.
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The man who reads everything is like the man who eats everything: he can digest nothing, and the penalty of crowding one’s mind with other men’s thoughts is to have no thoughts of one’s own.
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Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
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To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fibre of national life.
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No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know
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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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A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
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The white men were roused by a mere instinct of self-preservation—until at last there had sprung into existence a great Ku Klux Klan, a veritable empire of the South, to protect the Southern country.
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We must believe the things We teach our children
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If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.
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America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.
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Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.
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