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 WILSONThe 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.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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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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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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As a matter of fact and experience, the more power is divided the more irresponsible it becomes.
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We cannot be separated in interest or divided in purpose. We stand together until the end.
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Is there any man here or any woman, let me say is there any child here, who does not know that the seed of war in the modern world is industrial and commercial rivalry?
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I am not one of those who believe that a great standing army is the means of maintaining peace, because if you build up a great profession those who form parts of it want to exercise their profession.
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What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.
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Government, in it’s last analysis, is organized force.
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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 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.
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America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.
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Responsibility is proportionate to opportunity.
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Conformity will be the only virtue and any man who refuses to conform will have to pay the penalty.
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Men are not put into this world to go the path of ease, they are put into this world to go the path of pain and struggle.
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Power consists in one’s capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.
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