Woodrow Wilson Quotes, Government Quotes, Hands Quotes

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.

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If young gentlemen get from their years in college only manliness, esprit de corps, a release of their social gifts, a training ingive and take, a catholic taste in men and the standards of true sportsmen, they have gained much but they have not gained what a college should give them. It should give them insight into the things of the mind and the spiritthe consciousness of having taken on them the vows of true enlightenment and of having undergone the discipline, never to be shaken off, of those who seek wisdom in candor, with faithful labor and travail of spirit.

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Whate'er my doom; It cannot be unhappy: God hath given me The boon of resignation.

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The roll of honor consists of the names of meant who have squared their conduct by ideals of duty.

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A man is not as big as his belief in himself; he is as big as the number of persons who believe in him.

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The method of political science is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions.

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

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No man ever saw a government. I live in the midst of the Government of the United States, but I never saw the Government of the United States.

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Every people has a right to choose the sovereignty under which they shall live.

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Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.

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As a matter of fact and experience, the more power is divided the more irresponsible it becomes.

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The ordinary literary man, even though he be an eminent historian, is ill-fitted to be a mentor in affairs of government. For... things are for the most part very simple in books, and in practical life very complex.

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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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It is imperative that we should not only master them, but also act upon them, and act very definitely.

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That is Gladstone, the greatest statesman that ever lived. I intend to be a statesman, too.

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Nothing was ever done so systematically as nothing is being done now.

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Scholarship cannot do without literature.... It needs literature to float it, to set it current, to authenticate it to all the race, to get it out of closets and into the brains of men who stir abroad.

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Never attempt to murder a man who is committing suicide.

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America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal - to discover and maintain liberty among men.

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The man who reads everything is like the man who eats everything: he can digest nothing, and the penalty of crowding one's mind with other men's thoughts is to have no thoughts of one's own.

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