If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. Character is a by-product, and any man who devotes himself to its cultivation in his own case will become a selfish prig.
WOODROW WILSONI 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.’
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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Progressiveness means not standing still when everything else is moving.
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I would not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with great respect of the past.
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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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There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.
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The fewer the desires, the more peace.
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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.
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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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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.
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The truth is we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless.
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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.
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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.
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The great monopoly in this country is the money monopoly. So long as it exists, our old variety of freedom and individual energy of development are out of the question.
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When correcting a child, the goal is to apply light, not heat.
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If you’ve made up your mind you can do something, you’re absolutely RIGHT.
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Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.
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