Self-determination is not a mere phrase. It is an imperative principle of action, which statesmen will henceforth ignore at their peril.
WOODROW WILSONWe are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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To conquer with arms is to make only a temporary conquest; to conquer the world by earning its esteem is to make a permanent conquest.
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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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Big business is not dangerous because it is big, but because its bigness is an unwholesome inflation created by privileges and exemptions which it ought not to enjoy.
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The truth is we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless.
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Today’s greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow.
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Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.
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If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
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I could see now that a literary education did not fit one for the popular novelist’s trade.Once you had started using words like flavicomous or acroamatic, because you liked the sound of them, you were lost.
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We cannot be separated in interest or divided in purpose. We stand together until the end.
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Absolute identity with one’s cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
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Segregation is not humiliating but a benefit.
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I have the feeling that he would rather see a good cause fail than succeed if he were not the head of it.
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Government, in it’s last analysis, is organized force.
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The fewer the desires, the more peace.
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Only peace between equals can last.
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