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 WILSONWe cannot be separated in interest or divided in purpose. We stand together until the end.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being.
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If you’ve made up your mind you can do something, you’re absolutely RIGHT.
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Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.
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What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.
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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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I have the feeling that he would rather see a good cause fail than succeed if he were not the head of it.
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If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if an hour, I am ready now.
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The sum of the whole matter is this – our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually.
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High society is for those who have stopped working and no longer have anything important to do.
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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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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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What every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence.
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The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
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A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
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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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