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 WILSONRemember 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.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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This was not after all a conventional war, a struggle between equally predacious powers; it was a war to end all wars.
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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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America was born a Christian nation.
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A presidential campaign may easily degenerate into a mere personal contest, and so lose its real dignity. There is no indispensable man.
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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.
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The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them.
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I had rather have everybody on my side than be armed to the teeth.
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A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
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Men grow by having responsibility laid upon them.
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Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.
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“Genius is divine perseverance.” Divine patience I believe he originally used, perseverance is better in my opinion. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have.
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Benevolence does not consist in those who are prosperous pitying and helping those who are not. It consists in fellow feeling that puts you upon actually the same level with the fellow who suffers.
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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 man who has no vision will undertake no great enterprise.
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No people are true Christians who do not think constantly of how they can lift their brother and sister, how they can assist their friends, how they can enlighten mankind, how they can make virtue the rule of conduct in the circle in which they live.
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