Self-determination is not a mere phrase. It is an imperative principle of action, which statesmen will henceforth ignore at their peril.
WOODROW WILSONIf you lose your wealth, you have lost nothing; if you lose your health, you have lost something; but if you lose your character, you have lost everything.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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The white men were roused by a mere instinct of self-preservation—until at last there had sprung into existence a great Ku Klux Klan, a veritable empire of the South, to protect the Southern country.
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There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
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This was not after all a conventional war, a struggle between equally predacious powers; it was a war to end all wars.
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America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness which are derived from the revelations of the Holy Scripture.
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Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
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Has justice ever grown in the soil of absolute power? Has not justice always come from the … heart and spirit of men who resist power?
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There is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.
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The sum of the whole matter is this – our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually.
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It’s harder for a leader to be born in a palace than to be born in a cabin.
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I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.
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One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
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If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. Character is a by-product, and any man who devotes himself to its cultivation in his own case will become a selfish prig.
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Remember that God ordained that I should be the next president of the United States. Neither you nor any other mortal or mortals could have prevented this.
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We grow by our dreams.
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The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.
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