As a matter of fact and experience, the more power is divided the more irresponsible it becomes.
WOODROW WILSONIt does not become America that within her borders, where every man is free to follow the dictates of his conscience, men should raise the cry of church against church. To do that is to strike at the very spirit and heart of America.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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Government, in it’s last analysis, is organized force.
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One of the proofs of the divinity of our gospel is the preaching it has survived.
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The history of liberty is a history of resistance.
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We came to America, either ourselves or in the persons of our ancestors, to better the ideals of men, to make them see finer things than they had seen before, to get rid of the things that divide and to make sure of the things that unite.
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Responsibility is proportionate to opportunity.
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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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When correcting a child, the goal is to apply light, not heat.
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If you lose your wealth, you have lost nothing; if you lose your health, you have lost something; but if you lose your character, you have lost everything.
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The man who reads everything is like the man who eats everything: he can digest nothing, and the penalty of crowding one’s mind with other men’s thoughts is to have no thoughts of one’s own.
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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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The 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.
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It’s harder for a leader to be born in a palace than to be born in a cabin.
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When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.
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We are intensely proud of their noble record and are glad to have had the whole world see how irresistible they are in their might when a cause which America holds dear is at stake. The whole nation has reason to be proud of them.
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Only peace between equals can last.
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