Self-determination is not a mere phrase. It is an imperative principle of action, which statesmen will henceforth ignore at their peril.
WOODROW WILSONNo man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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Government, in it’s last analysis, is organized force.
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You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it.
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No man has ever risen to the stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.
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What every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence.
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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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To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.
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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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I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
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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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The history of liberty is a history of resistance.
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We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world.
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Men are not put into this world to go the path of ease, they are put into this world to go the path of pain and struggle.
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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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To be free is not necessarily to be wise. Wisdom comes with counsel, with the frank and free conference of untrammeled men united in the common interest.
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I had rather have everybody on my side than be armed to the teeth.
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