Responsibility is proportionate to opportunity.
WOODROW WILSONWe ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialists–believers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
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We cannot be separated in interest or divided in purpose. We stand together until the end.
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Progressiveness means not standing still when everything else is moving.
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We are no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and the duress of small groups of dominant men.
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The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.
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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 man who has no vision will undertake no great enterprise.
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The princes among us are those who forget themselves and serve others.
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I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool, the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.
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If the colored people made a mistake in voting for me, they ought to correct it.
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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.
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America was born a Christian nation.
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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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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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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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