We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.
WOODROW WILSONLiberty does not consist in mere declarations of the rights of man. It consists in the translation of those declarations into definite action.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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Thought cannot conceive of anything that may not be brought to expression. He who first uttered it may be only the suggester, but the doer will appear.
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I have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty, and business liberty, and every other kind of liberty, in the phrase that is common in the sporting world, ‘A free field and no favor.’
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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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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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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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Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the distemper’s that make an ordered life impossible.
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The cure for bad politics is the same as the cure for tuberculosis. It is living in the open.
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That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
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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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Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God.
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One of the proofs of the divinity of our gospel is the preaching it has survived.
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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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A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
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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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Every people has a right to choose the sovereignty under which they shall live.
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