I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.
WOODROW WILSONWe are intensely proud of their noble record and are glad to have had the whole world see how irresistible they are in their might when a cause which America holds dear is at stake. The whole nation has reason to be proud of them.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
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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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We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.
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I do not want a government that will take care of me, I want a government that will make other men take their hands off me so I can take care of myself.
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The right is more precious than peace.
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We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world.
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America was born a Christian nation.
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It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilizationitself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things we have always carried closest to our hearts.
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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.
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A fault which humbles a person is of more use to him or her than a good action which puffs him or her up.
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Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord’s Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
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If 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.
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Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.
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A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.
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Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.
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