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Government Quotes by Woodrow Wilson
- America is the place where you cannot kill your government by killing the men who conduct it.
- Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
- Government, in it's last analysis, is organized force.
- The history of liberty is the history of limitations on the power of government, not the increase of it. When we resist, therefore, the concentration…
- Liberty is its own reward.
- From the dim morning hours of history when the father was king and priest down to this modern time of history's high noon when nations…
- Government is merely an attempt to express the conscience of everybody, the average conscience of the nation, in the rules that everybody is commanded to…
- In public affairs, stupidity is more dangerous than knavery, because it is harder to fight.
- Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little. . . . We…
- The allied nations with the fullest concurrence of our government and people are agreed that in Palestine shall be laid the foundations of a Jewish…
- Government ought to be all outside and no inside. . . . Everybody knows that corruption thrives in secret places, and avoids public places, and…
- We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world.
- 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…
- 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…
- No government has ever been beneficent when the attitude of government was that it was taking care of the people. The only freedom consists in…
- The firm basis of government is justice, not pity.
- There is no indispensable man. The government will not collapse and go to pieces if any one of the gentlemen who are seeking to be…
- Politics is a war of causes; a joust of principles. Government is too serious a matter to admit of meaningless courtesies.
- 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…
- 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…
- A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
- If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it.
- The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous, event of our…
- I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system…
- Freedom exists only where the people take care of the government.
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