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 WILSONA conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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If the colored people made a mistake in voting for me, they ought to correct it.
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When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.
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We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.
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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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There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
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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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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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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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What 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.
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Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
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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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All things come to him who waits – provided he knows what he is waiting for.
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No man has ever risen to the stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.
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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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To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.
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