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.
WOODROW WILSONWork is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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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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Never murder a man when he’s busy committing suicide.
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When correcting a child, the goal is to apply light, not heat.
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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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Absolute identity with one’s cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
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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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Only peace between equals can last.
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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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“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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America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.
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I 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.
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There was a time when corporations played a minor part in our business affairs, but now they play the chief part, and most men are the servants of corporations.
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I have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty, and business liberty, and every other kind of liberty, in the phrase that is common in the sporting world, ‘A free field and no favor.’
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Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting.
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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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