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 WILSONWar isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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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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I had rather have everybody on my side than be armed to the teeth.
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America was born a Christian nation.
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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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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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Absolute identity with one’s cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
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Segregation is not humiliating but a benefit.
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The right is more precious than peace.
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We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.
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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 way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.
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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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I am sorry for men who do not read the Bible every day. I wonder why they deprive themselves of the strength and pleasure.
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The whole purpose of democracy is that we may hold counsel with one another, so as not to depend upon the understanding of one man.
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It is not an army that we must train for war; it is a nation.
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