As a matter of fact and experience, the more power is divided the more irresponsible it becomes.
WOODROW WILSONA conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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The way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.
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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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We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.
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Thought cannot conceive of anything that may not be brought to expression. He who first uttered it may be only the suggester, but the doer will appear.
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I would not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with great respect of the past.
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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 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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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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One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
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There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.
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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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A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what we have been about.
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It does not become America that within her borders, where every man is free to follow the dictates of his conscience, men should raise the cry of church against church. To do that is to strike at the very spirit and heart of America.
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The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.
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We came to America, either ourselves or in the persons of our ancestors, to better the ideals of men, to make them see finer things than they had seen before, to get rid of the things that divide and to make sure of the things that unite.
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