America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.
WOODROW WILSONWe have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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It does not become America that within her borders, where every man is free to follow the dictates of his conscience, men should raise the cry of church against church. To do that is to strike at the very spirit and heart of America.
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Benevolence does not consist in those who are prosperous pitying and helping those who are not. It consists in fellow feeling that puts you upon actually the same level with the fellow who suffers.
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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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Segregation is not humiliating but a benefit.
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I am the friend of peace and mean to preserve it for America so long as I am able. No course of my choosing or of their (nations at war) will lead to war. War can come only by the wilful acts and aggressions of others.
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There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.
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When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.
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Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse. Untrammeled reasoning is the indulgence of the philosopher, of the dreamer of sweet dreams.
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We came to America, either ourselves or in the persons of our ancestors, to better the ideals of men, to make them see finer things than they had seen before, to get rid of the things that divide and to make sure of the things that unite.
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Progressiveness means not standing still when everything else is moving.
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I have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty, and business liberty, and every other kind of liberty, in the phrase that is common in the sporting world, ‘A free field and no favor.’
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The ordinary literary man, even though he be an eminent historian, is ill-fitted to be a mentor in affairs of government. For… things are for the most part very simple in books, and in practical life very complex.
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To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.
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If you’ve made up your mind you can do something, you’re absolutely RIGHT.
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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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