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 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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A man’s rootage is more important than his leafage.
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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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No people are true Christians who do not think constantly of how they can lift their brother and sister, how they can assist their friends, how they can enlighten mankind, how they can make virtue the rule of conduct in the circle in which they live.
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I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being.
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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.
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There is something better, if possible, that a man can give than his life. That is his living spirit to a service that is not easy, to resist counsels that are hard to resist, to stand against purposes that are difficult to stand against.
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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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Only peace between equals can last.
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The ordinary literary man, even though he be an eminent historian, is ill-fitted to be a mentor in affairs of government. For… things are for the most part very simple in books, and in practical life very complex.
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The truth is we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless.
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That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
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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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At every crisis in one’s life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving.
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The fewer the desires, the more peace.
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Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting.
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