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The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.
Written by Woodrow Wilson
Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.
Written by Woodrow Wilson
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.
Written by Woodrow Wilson
If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
Written by Woodrow Wilson
One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
Written by Woodrow Wilson
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
Written by Woodrow Wilson
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.
Written by Woodrow Wilson
The history of liberty is a history of resistance.
Written by Woodrow Wilson
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
Written by Woodrow Wilson
Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.
Written by Woodrow Wilson
There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with.
Written by Woodrow Wilson
The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.
Written by Woodrow Wilson
At every crisis in one's life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving.
Written by Woodrow Wilson
Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.
Written by Woodrow Wilson
Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.
Written by Woodrow Wilson
By 'radical,' I understand one who goes too far; by 'conservative', one who does not go far enough; by 'reactionary', one who won't go at all.
Written by Woodrow Wilson
A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
Written by Woodrow Wilson
Every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells, and when I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is growing or swelling.
Written by Woodrow Wilson
If you think too much about being re-elected, it is very difficult to be worth re-electing.
Written by Woodrow Wilson
I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.
Written by Woodrow Wilson
There are blessed intervals when I forget by one means or another that I am President of the United States.
Written by Woodrow Wilson
If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.
Written by Woodrow Wilson
America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal - to discover and maintain liberty among men.
Written by Woodrow Wilson
The seed of revolution is repression.
Written by Woodrow Wilson
If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it.
Written by Woodrow Wilson
I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
Written by Woodrow Wilson
A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
Written by Woodrow Wilson
Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
Written by Woodrow Wilson
I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.
Written by Woodrow Wilson
There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
Written by Woodrow Wilson

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