No government has ever been beneficent when the attitude of government was that it was taking care of the people. The only freedom consists in the people taking care of the government.
WOODROW WILSONAmerica was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness which are derived from the revelations of the Holy Scripture.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
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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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America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.
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Progressiveness means not standing still when everything else is moving.
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America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness which are derived from the revelations of the Holy Scripture.
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That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
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Unless justice be done to others it will not be done to us.
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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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The man who disparages music as a luxury and non-essential is doing the nation an injury. Music now, more than ever before, is a national need.
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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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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.
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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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The world can be at peace only if the world is stable, and there can be no stability where the will is in rebellion, where there is not tranquility of spirit and a sense of justice, of freedom, and of right.
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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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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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