If you’ve made up your mind you can do something, you’re absolutely RIGHT.
WOODROW WILSONWhat is the use of voting? We know that the machines of both parties are subsidized by the same persons, and therefore it is useless to turn in either direction.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence is a practical document for the use of practical men. It is not a thesis for philosophers, but a whip for tyrants; it is not a theory of government but a program of action.
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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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The whole purpose of democracy is that we may hold counsel with one another, so as not to depend upon the understanding of one man.
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It is not an army that we must train for war; it is a nation.
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This was not after all a conventional war, a struggle between equally predacious powers; it was a war to end all wars.
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The seed of revolution is repression.
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War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.
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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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A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
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“Genius is divine perseverance.” Divine patience I believe he originally used, perseverance is better in my opinion. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have.
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Responsibility is proportionate to opportunity.
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Never murder a man when he’s busy committing suicide.
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A radical is one of whom people say ”He goes too far.” A conservative, on the other hand, is one who ”doesn’t go far enough.” Then there is the reactionary, ”one who doesn’t go at all.” All these terms are more or less objectionable, wherefore we have.
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No people are true Christians who do not think constantly of how they can lift their brother and sister, how they can assist their friends, how they can enlighten mankind, how they can make virtue the rule of conduct in the circle in which they live.
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If you wish your children to be Christians you must really take the trouble to be Christian yourselves. Those are the only terms upon which the home will work the gracious miracle.
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