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.
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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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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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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If you lose your wealth, you have lost nothing; if you lose your health, you have lost something; but if you lose your character, you have lost everything.
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It is not an army that we must train for war; it is a nation.
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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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The man who has no vision will undertake no great enterprise.
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To conquer with arms is to make only a temporary conquest; to conquer the world by earning its esteem is to make a permanent conquest.
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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.
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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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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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You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
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I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.
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At every crisis in one’s life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving.
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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.
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Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting.
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