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Historical Figures Quotes |
A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when
in doubt.
Woodrow Wilson
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A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their
own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
Woodrow Wilson
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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.
Woodrow Wilson
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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.
Woodrow Wilson
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I will not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always
speak with respect of the past.
Woodrow Wilson
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If there are men in this country big enough to own the government
of the United States, they are going to own it.
Woodrow Wilson
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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.
Woodrow Wilson
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Property as compared with humanity, as compared with the red blood
in the American people, must take second place, not first place
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Woodrow Wilson
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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.
Woodrow Wilson
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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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You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to
enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of
hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself
if you forget the errand.
Woodrow Wilson
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If there is dissatisfaction with the status quo, good. If there is
ferment, so much the better. If there is restlessness, I am pleased. Then let there
be ideas, and hard thought, and hard work. If man feels small, let man make himself
bigger.
Hubert H. Humphrey
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It is not enough to merely defend democracy. To defend it may be
to lose it; to extend it is to strengthen it. Democracy is not property; it is an
idea.
Hubert H. Humphrey
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It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government
treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight
of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy
and the handicapped.
Hubert H. Humphrey
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Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock
of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.
Hubert H. Humphrey
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Liberalism, above all, means emancipation - emancipation from one's
fears, his inadequacies, from prejudice, from discrimination, from poverty.
Hubert H. Humphrey
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The President is the people's lobbyist.
Hubert H. Humphrey
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Today we know that World War II began not in 1939 or 1941 but in
the 1920's and 1930's when those who should have known better persuaded themselves
that they were not their brother's keeper.
Hubert H. Humphrey
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This, then, is the test we must set for ourselves; not to march alone
but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.
Hubert H. Humphrey
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There are those who say to you - we are rushing this issue of civil
rights. I say we are 172 years late.
Hubert H. Humphrey
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We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense
and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his
children smart.
H. L. Mencken
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What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
H. L. Mencken
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When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice,
that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two
ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before.
H. L. Mencken
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