I am not one of those who believe that a great standing army is the means of maintaining peace, because if you build up a great profession those who form parts of it want to exercise their profession.
WOODROW WILSONI believe that soldiers will bear me out in saying that both come in time of battle. I take it that the moral courage comes in going into the battle, and the physical courage in staying in.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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A man’s rootage is more important than his leafage.
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No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.
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High society is for those who have stopped working and no longer have anything important to do.
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Is there any man here or any woman, let me say is there any child here, who does not know that the seed of war in the modern world is industrial and commercial rivalry?
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A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
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The world can be at peace only if the world is stable, and there can be no stability where the will is in rebellion, where there is not tranquility of spirit and a sense of justice, of freedom, and of right.
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There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
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Unless justice be done to others it will not be done to us.
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The man who reads everything is like the man who eats everything: he can digest nothing, and the penalty of crowding one’s mind with other men’s thoughts is to have no thoughts of one’s own.
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If the colored people made a mistake in voting for me, they ought to correct it.
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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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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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All things come to him who waits – provided he knows what he is waiting for.
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The roll of honor consists of the names of meant who have squared their conduct by ideals of duty.
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Never murder a man when he’s busy committing suicide.
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