To be free is not necessarily to be wise. Wisdom comes with counsel, with the frank and free conference of untrammeled men united in the common interest.
WOODROW WILSONAny man that resists the present tides that run in the world, will find himself thrown upon a shore so high and barren that it will seem he has been separated from his human kind forever.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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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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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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Responsibility is proportionate to opportunity.
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If you’ve made up your mind you can do something, you’re absolutely RIGHT.
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I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.
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We are not put into this world to sit still and know; we are put into it to act.
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It is not an army that we must train for war; it is a nation.
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Never murder a man when he’s busy committing suicide.
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What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.
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Government ought to be all outside and no inside. Everybody knows that corruption thrives in secret places, and avoids public places, and we believe it a fair presumption that secrecy means impropriety.
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The right is more precious than peace.
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America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness which are derived from the revelations of the Holy Scripture.
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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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The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.
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