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?
WOODROW WILSONThis was not after all a conventional war, a struggle between equally predacious powers; it was a war to end all wars.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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It’s harder for a leader to be born in a palace than to be born in a cabin.
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To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fibre of national life.
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Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God.
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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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“Genius is divine perseverance.” Divine patience I believe he originally used, perseverance is better in my opinion. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have.
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If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.
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There is something better, if possible, that a man can give than his life. That is his living spirit to a service that is not easy, to resist counsels that are hard to resist, to stand against purposes that are difficult to stand against.
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It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilizationitself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things we have always carried closest to our hearts.
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I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being.
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The truth is we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless.
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There’s not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else’s brains.
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If you’ve made up your mind you can do something, you’re absolutely RIGHT.
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The sum of the whole matter is this – our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually.
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I would not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with great respect of the past.
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We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.
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