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.
WOODROW WILSONA little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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“Genius is divine perseverance.” Divine patience I believe he originally used, perseverance is better in my opinion. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have.
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A fault which humbles a person is of more use to him or her than a good action which puffs him or her up.
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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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Every people has a right to choose the sovereignty under which they shall live.
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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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We are not put into this world to sit still and know; we are put into it to act.
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What is the use of voting? We know that the machines of both parties are subsidized by the same persons, and therefore it is useless to turn in either direction.
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The seed of revolution is repression.
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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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I could see now that a literary education did not fit one for the popular novelist’s trade.Once you had started using words like flavicomous or acroamatic, because you liked the sound of them, you were lost.
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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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Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the distemper’s that make an ordered life impossible.
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As a matter of fact and experience, the more power is divided the more irresponsible it becomes.
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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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Conformity will be the only virtue and any man who refuses to conform will have to pay the penalty.
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