It is not an army that we must train for war; it is a nation.
WOODROW WILSONAmerica was born a Christian nation.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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Self-determination is not a mere phrase. It is an imperative principle of action, which statesmen will henceforth ignore at their peril.
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If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if an hour, I am ready now.
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Character, my friends, is a byproduct. It is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.
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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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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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We ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialists–believers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic.
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When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.
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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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The whole purpose of democracy is that we may hold counsel with one another, so as not to depend upon the understanding of one man.
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Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.
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A presidential campaign may easily degenerate into a mere personal contest, and so lose its real dignity. There is no indispensable man.
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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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A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
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No man ever saw a government. I live in the midst of the Government of the United States, but I never saw the Government of the United States.
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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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