The cure for bad politics is the same as the cure for tuberculosis. It is living in the open.
WOODROW WILSONIs there any man here or any woman, let me say is there any child here, who does not know that the seed of war in the modern world is industrial and commercial rivalry?
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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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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The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them.
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A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.
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If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. Character is a by-product, and any man who devotes himself to its cultivation in his own case will become a selfish prig.
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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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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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There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
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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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America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness which are derived from the revelations of the Holy Scripture.
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We must believe the things We teach our children
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We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.
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No government has ever been beneficent when the attitude of government was that it was taking care of the people. The only freedom consists in the people taking care of the government.
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Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.
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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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The great monopoly in this country is the money monopoly. So long as it exists, our old variety of freedom and individual energy of development are out of the question.
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