We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.
WOODROW WILSONThe cure for bad politics is the same as the cure for tuberculosis. It is living in the open.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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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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A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
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Men grow by having responsibility laid upon them.
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The world must be made safe for democracy.
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I had rather have everybody on my side than be armed to the teeth.
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Big business is not dangerous because it is big, but because its bigness is an unwholesome inflation created by privileges and exemptions which it ought not to enjoy.
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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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I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
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Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.
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America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.
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Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence is a practical document for the use of practical men. It is not a thesis for philosophers, but a whip for tyrants; it is not a theory of government but a program of action.
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Benevolence does not consist in those who are prosperous pitying and helping those who are not. It consists in fellow feeling that puts you upon actually the same level with the fellow who suffers.
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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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No man has ever risen to the stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.
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The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.
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