"The legislator must be in advance of..." - Quote by Woodrow Wilson
The legislator must be in advance of his age.Across the mind of the statesman flash ever and anon the brilliant, though partial, intimations of future events.... Something which is more than fore-sight and less than prophetic knowledge marks the statesman a peculiar being among his contemporaries.
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“I had rather be defeated in a cause that will ultimately triumph than triumph in a cause that will ultimately be defeated.”
“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.”
“The object of love is to serve, not to win”
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