Congress in session is Congress on public exhibition, whilst Congress in its committee-rooms is Congress at work. - Woodrow Wilson

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Congress in session is Congress on public exhibition, whilst Congress in its committee-rooms is Congress at work.

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About Woodrow Wilson

Thomas Woodrow Wilson (28 December 1856 – 3 February 1924) was the 28th president of the United States of America (1913–1921) and the 45th governor of New Jersey (1911–1913). He was the second Democrat to serve two consecutive terms in the White House, after Andrew Jackson, and was the first President from the South to be elected since the American Civil War

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Alternative Names: Thomas Woodrow Wilson T. Woodrow Wilson Thomas W. Wilson President Wilson T. W. Wilson T. Wilson
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Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of government is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is the history of the limitation of government, not the increase of it.

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