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.
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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All things come to him who waits – provided he knows what he is waiting for.
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The shadows that now lie dark upon our path will soon be dispelled and we shall walk with the light all about us if we but be true to ourselves.
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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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We cannot be separated in interest or divided in purpose. We stand together until the end.
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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.
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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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Today’s greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow.
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I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
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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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High society is for those who have stopped working and no longer have anything important to do.
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A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what we have been about.
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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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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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I am the friend of peace and mean to preserve it for America so long as I am able. No course of my choosing or of their (nations at war) will lead to war. War can come only by the wilful acts and aggressions of others.
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Only peace between equals can last.
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