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 WILSONA presidential campaign may easily degenerate into a mere personal contest, and so lose its real dignity. There is no indispensable man.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.
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We grow by our dreams.
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We cannot be separated in interest or divided in purpose. We stand together until the end.
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As a matter of fact and experience, the more power is divided the more irresponsible it becomes.
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We ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialists–believers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic.
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A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
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I have the feeling that he would rather see a good cause fail than succeed if he were not the head of it.
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We must believe the things We teach our children
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I had rather have everybody on my side than be armed to the teeth.
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Unless justice be done to others it will not be done to us.
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A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
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Segregation is not humiliating but a benefit.
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The whole purpose of democracy is that we may hold counsel with one another, so as not to depend upon the understanding of one man.
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Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.
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The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.
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To conquer with arms is to make only a temporary conquest; to conquer the world by earning its esteem is to make a permanent conquest.
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Today’s greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow.
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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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I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
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America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness which are derived from the revelations of the Holy Scripture.
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It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilizationitself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things we have always carried closest to our hearts.
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You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it.
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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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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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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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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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