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.
WOODROW WILSONWe have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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I would not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with great respect of the past.
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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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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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I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
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No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
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The man who disparages music as a luxury and non-essential is doing the nation an injury. Music now, more than ever before, is a national need.
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The man who has no vision will undertake no great enterprise.
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We are intensely proud of their noble record and are glad to have had the whole world see how irresistible they are in their might when a cause which America holds dear is at stake. The whole nation has reason to be proud of them.
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Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
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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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A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
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I am not one of those who believe that a great standing army is the means of maintaining peace, because if you build up a great profession those who form parts of it want to exercise their profession.
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If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. Character is a by-product, and any man who devotes himself to its cultivation in his own case will become a selfish prig.
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There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.
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I had rather have everybody on my side than be armed to the teeth.
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