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.
WOODROW WILSONIf you’ve made up your mind you can do something, you’re absolutely RIGHT.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.
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Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse. Untrammeled reasoning is the indulgence of the philosopher, of the dreamer of sweet dreams.
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This was not after all a conventional war, a struggle between equally predacious powers; it was a war to end all wars.
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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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Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
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We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.
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Any man that resists the present tides that run in the world, will find himself thrown upon a shore so high and barren that it will seem he has been separated from his human kind forever.
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Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.
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The world must be made safe for democracy.
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If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.
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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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We must believe the things We teach our children
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To be free is not necessarily to be wise. Wisdom comes with counsel, with the frank and free conference of untrammeled men united in the common interest.
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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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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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