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 WILSONAmerica cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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We ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialists–believers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic.
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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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A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
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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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The object of love is to serve, not to win.
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Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God.
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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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Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.
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I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.
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You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
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To conquer with arms is to make only a temporary conquest; to conquer the world by earning its esteem is to make a permanent conquest.
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One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
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Never murder a man when he’s busy committing suicide.
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We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.
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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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