The right is more precious than peace.
WOODROW WILSONThe whole purpose of democracy is that we may hold counsel with one another, so as not to depend upon the understanding of one man.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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A radical is one of whom people say ”He goes too far.” A conservative, on the other hand, is one who ”doesn’t go far enough.” Then there is the reactionary, ”one who doesn’t go at all.” All these terms are more or less objectionable, wherefore we have.
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If you’ve made up your mind you can do something, you’re absolutely RIGHT.
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The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them.
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A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
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I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
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You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
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No government has ever been beneficent when the attitude of government was that it was taking care of the people. The only freedom consists in the people taking care of the government.
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America was born a Christian nation.
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We are not put into this world to sit still and know; we are put into it to act.
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War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.
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I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.
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One of the proofs of the divinity of our gospel is the preaching it has survived.
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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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Power consists in one’s capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.
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Thought cannot conceive of anything that may not be brought to expression. He who first uttered it may be only the suggester, but the doer will appear.
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