Woodrow Wilson Quotes, Style Quotes, Matter Quotes

I must beg you to indulge me in the matter of hyphens.... You will find that I have marked out a great many in the proofs. We arein danger of Germanizing our printing by using them so much, and I have a very decided preference in the matter.

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Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God.

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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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Reality is what I see, not what you see.

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Progressiveness means not standing still when everything else is moving.

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There is here a great melting pot in which we must compound a precious metal. That metal is the metal of nationality.

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I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country.

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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 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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The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.

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It is not an army that we must train for war; it is a nation.

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The truth is we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless.

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I do not want to live under a philanthropy. I do not want to be taken care of by the government.... We do not want a benevolent government. We want a free and a just government.

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Energy in a nation is like sap in a tree; it rises from bottom up.

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Let me... remind you that it is only by working with an energy which is almost superhuman and which looks to uninterested spectators like insanity that we can accomplish anything worth the achievement. Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God.

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We [Americans] have a great ardor for gain; but we have a deep passion for the rights of man.

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Every great man of business has got somewhere a touch of the idealist in him.

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Your real statesman is first of all, and chief of all, a great human being, with an eye for all the great fields on which men likehimself struggle, with unflagging, pathetic hope, toward better things.... He is a guide, a counselor, a mentor, a servant, a friend of mankind.

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I can imagine no greater disservice to the country than to establish a system of censorship that would deny to the people of a free republic like our own their indisputable right to criticize their own public officials. While exercising the great powers of the office I hold, I would regret in a crisis like the one through which we are now passing to lose the benefit of patriotic and intelligent criticism.

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Big business is not dangerous because it is big, but because its bigness is an unwholesome inflation created by privileges and exemptions which it ought not to enjoy.

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