The roll of honor consists of the names of meant who have squared their conduct by ideals of duty.
WOODROW WILSONA radical is one of whom people say ”He goes too far.” A conservative, on the other hand, is one who ”doesn’t go far enough.” Then there is the reactionary, ”one who doesn’t go at all.” All these terms are more or less objectionable, wherefore we have.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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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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The shadows that now lie dark upon our path will soon be dispelled and we shall walk with the light all about us if we but be true to ourselves.
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Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
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Remember that God ordained that I should be the next president of the United States. Neither you nor any other mortal or mortals could have prevented this.
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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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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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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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The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.
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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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What every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence.
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You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it.
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If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
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I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
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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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A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
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