Woodrow Wilson Quotes, Government Quotes, Breathing Quotes

The trouble with the theory [of limited and divided government] is that government is not a machine, but a living thing. This is where the living and breathing constitution comes from. It is modified by its environment, necessitated by its tasks, shaped to its functions by the sheer pressure of life.

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The highest and best form of efficiency is the spontaneous cooperation of a free people.

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We forget that there is much more patriotism in having the audacity to differ from the majority than in running before the crowd; we forget that in the resistance of the minority some of the biggest things in our own history have been accomplished, and the man who looks on the Stars and Stripes and doesn't hold a right to say nay to his neighbor, even if the neighbor is of the larger party, has forgotten the history of his country.

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The natural man inevitably rebels against mathematics, a mild form of torture that could only be learned by painful processes of drill.

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If you lose your wealth, you have lost nothing; if you lose your health, you have lost something; but if you lose your character, you have lost everything.

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I am not one of those who have the least anxiety about the triumph of the principles I have stood for. I have seen fools resist Providence before, and I have seen their destruction, as will come upon these again, utter destruction and contempt. That we shall prevail is as sure as that God reigns.

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Since trade ignores national boundaries and the manufacturer insists on having the world as a market, the flag of his nation must follow him, and the doors of the nations which are closed against him must be battered down. Concessions obtained by financiers must be safeguarded by ministers of state, even if the sovereignty of unwilling nations be outraged in the process. Colonies must be obtained or planted, in order that no useful corner of the world may be overlooked or left unused.

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The firm basis of government is justice, not pity.

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Only a peace between equals can last. Only a peace the very principle of which is equality and a common participation in a common benefit.

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There will be no greater burden on our generation than to organize the forces of liberty in our time in order to make our quest ofa new freedom for America.

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Some people have a large circle of friends while others have only friends that they like.

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Never for a moment have I had one doubt about my religious beliefs. There are people who believe only so far as they can understand--that seems to me presumptuous and sets their understanding as the standard of the universe.

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Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.

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The presidential office is not a rosewater affair. This is an office in which a man must put on his war paint.

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To think that I, the son ofthe manse, should be able to help restore the Holy Land to its people.

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There is something better, if possible, that a man can give than his life. That is his living spirit to a service that is not easy, to resist counsels that are hard to resist, to stand against purposes that are difficult to stand against.

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The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.

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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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I have received delegations of working men who, apparently speaking with the utmost sincerity, have declared that they would regard it as a genuine hardship if they were deprived of their beer, for example.

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The rule for every man is, not to depend on the education which other men have prepared for him-not even to consent to it; but to strive to see things as they are, and to be himself as he is. Defeat lies in self-surrender.

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