The world must be made safe for democracy.
WOODROW WILSONI do not want a government that will take care of me, I want a government that will make other men take their hands off me so I can take care of myself.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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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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The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.
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You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand
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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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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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It’s harder for a leader to be born in a palace than to be born in a cabin.
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Government, in it’s last analysis, is organized force.
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We must believe the things We teach our children
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If you lose your wealth, you have lost nothing; if you lose your health, you have lost something; but if you lose your character, you have lost everything.
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I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.
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Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the distemper’s that make an ordered life impossible.
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No 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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There’s not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else’s brains.
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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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The fewer the desires, the more peace.
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Big business is not dangerous because it is big, but because its bigness is an unwholesome inflation created by privileges and exemptions which it ought not to enjoy.
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Absolute identity with one’s cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
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A man’s rootage is more important than his leafage.
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I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being.
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A presidential campaign may easily degenerate into a mere personal contest, and so lose its real dignity. There is no indispensable man.
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Responsibility is proportionate to opportunity.
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I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.
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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 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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We came to America, either ourselves or in the persons of our ancestors, to better the ideals of men, to make them see finer things than they had seen before, to get rid of the things that divide and to make sure of the things that unite.
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A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
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