American - President | December 28, 1856 - February 3, 1924
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.
Woodrow Wilson
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We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study.
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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.
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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.
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The history of liberty is a history of resistance.
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Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.
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Interest does not tie nations together; it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.
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I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.
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Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
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So far as the colleges go, the sideshows are swallowing up the circus.
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Tell me what is right and I will fight for it.
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Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.
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