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.
WOODROW WILSONLife does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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We are no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and the duress of small groups of dominant men.
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Character, my friends, is a byproduct. It is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.
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When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.
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I had rather have everybody on my side than be armed to the teeth.
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We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.
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I am sorry for men who do not read the Bible every day. I wonder why they deprive themselves of the strength and pleasure.
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Men grow by having responsibility laid upon them.
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The whole purpose of democracy is that we may hold counsel with one another, so as not to depend upon the understanding of one man.
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If you’ve made up your mind you can do something, you’re absolutely RIGHT.
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If you lose your wealth, you have lost nothing; if you lose your health, you have lost something; but if you lose your character, you have lost everything.
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Government, in it’s last analysis, is organized force.
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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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The masters of the government of the United States are the combined capitalists and manufacturers of the United States.
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What every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence.
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Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.
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