The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them.
WOODROW WILSONI would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
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The seed of revolution is repression.
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The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.
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It is not an army that we must train for war; it is a nation.
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The great monopoly in this country is the money monopoly. So long as it exists, our old variety of freedom and individual energy of development are out of the question.
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I am the friend of peace and mean to preserve it for America so long as I am able. No course of my choosing or of their (nations at war) will lead to war. War can come only by the wilful acts and aggressions of others.
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We cannot be separated in interest or divided in purpose. We stand together until the end.
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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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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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Has justice ever grown in the soil of absolute power? Has not justice always come from the … heart and spirit of men who resist power?
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There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.
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What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.
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The way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.
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A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
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We are intensely proud of their noble record and are glad to have had the whole world see how irresistible they are in their might when a cause which America holds dear is at stake. The whole nation has reason to be proud of them.
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