This was not after all a conventional war, a struggle between equally predacious powers; it was a war to end all wars.
WOODROW WILSONThe 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.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.
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If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. Character is a by-product, and any man who devotes himself to its cultivation in his own case will become a selfish prig.
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Never murder a man when he’s busy committing suicide.
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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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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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As a matter of fact and experience, the more power is divided the more irresponsible it becomes.
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A fault which humbles a person is of more use to him or her than a good action which puffs him or her up.
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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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That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
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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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I would not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with great respect of the past.
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A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
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The seed of revolution is repression.
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Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
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There is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.
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