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.
WOODROW WILSONWhen men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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Government ought to be all outside and no inside. Everybody knows that corruption thrives in secret places, and avoids public places, and we believe it a fair presumption that secrecy means impropriety.
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Responsibility is proportionate to opportunity.
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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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If you wish your children to be Christians you must really take the trouble to be Christian yourselves. Those are the only terms upon which the home will work the gracious miracle.
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There’s not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else’s brains.
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I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.
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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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Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse. Untrammeled reasoning is the indulgence of the philosopher, of the dreamer of sweet dreams.
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It is the object of learning, not only to satisfy the curiosity and perfect the spirits of ordinary men, but also to advance civilization.
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War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.
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Progressiveness means not standing still when everything else is moving.
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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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Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting.
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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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We are not put into this world to sit still and know; we are put into it to act.
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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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America was born a Christian nation.
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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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There was a time when corporations played a minor part in our business affairs, but now they play the chief part, and most men are the servants of corporations.
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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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We must believe the things We teach our children
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The princes among us are those who forget themselves and serve others.
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I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.
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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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One of the proofs of the divinity of our gospel is the preaching it has survived.
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Power consists in one’s capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.
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