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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.

Woodrow Wilson

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.
WOODROW WILSON

Company Enjoyment Friendship Myself Teaching
I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.
WOODROW WILSON

Freedom Liberty Love Myself Nation Rich
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.
WOODROW WILSON

Luxury Man Music National Need
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 WILSON

Attitude Care Freedom Government People
Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.
WOODROW WILSON

Accomplishment Defeat Order System
There is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.
WOODROW WILSON

Breathe Organization Power Talk Watch
Liberty does not consist in mere declarations of the rights of man. It consists in the translation of those declarations into definite action.
WOODROW WILSON

Action Declaration Liberty Right Translation
This was not after all a conventional war, a struggle between equally predacious powers; it was a war to end all wars.
WOODROW WILSON

Equality Power Struggle War
Character, my friends, is a byproduct. It is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.
WOODROW WILSON

Character Daily Friendship Greatness
No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.
WOODROW WILSON

Enterprise Hope Man Realization See Vision
When correcting a child, the goal is to apply light, not heat.
WOODROW WILSON

Children Heat Light
The cure for bad politics is the same as the cure for tuberculosis. It is living in the open.
WOODROW WILSON

Bad Live Open Politics
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.
WOODROW WILSON

Conservation Hands Himself Object People Reaction
There’s not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else’s brains.
WOODROW WILSON

Brain Head Ideas Shine
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.
WOODROW WILSON

Happiness Noble Proud Reason Record
Responsibility is proportionate to opportunity.
WOODROW WILSON

Opportunity Responsibility

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