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.
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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The right is more precious than peace.
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Absolute identity with one’s cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
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Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
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The roll of honor consists of the names of meant who have squared their conduct by ideals of duty.
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A presidential campaign may easily degenerate into a mere personal contest, and so lose its real dignity. There is no indispensable man.
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I am sorry for men who do not read the Bible every day. I wonder why they deprive themselves of the strength and pleasure.
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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.
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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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If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.
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Government, in it’s last analysis, is organized force.
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Thought cannot conceive of anything that may not be brought to expression. He who first uttered it may be only the suggester, but the doer will appear.
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A fault which humbles a person is of more use to him or her than a good action which puffs him or her up.
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I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
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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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Remember that God ordained that I should be the next president of the United States. Neither you nor any other mortal or mortals could have prevented this.
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