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.
WOODROW WILSONI had rather have everybody on my side than be armed to the teeth.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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If the colored people made a mistake in voting for me, they ought to correct it.
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We came to America, either ourselves or in the persons of our ancestors, to better the ideals of men, to make them see finer things than they had seen before, to get rid of the things that divide and to make sure of the things that unite.
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All things come to him who waits – provided he knows what he is waiting for.
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The princes among us are those who forget themselves and serve others.
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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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The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.
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The roll of honor consists of the names of meant who have squared their conduct by ideals of duty.
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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.
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Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
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There was a time when corporations played a minor part in our business affairs, but now they play the chief part, and most men are the servants of corporations.
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Government ought to be all outside and no inside. Everybody knows that corruption thrives in secret places, and avoids public places, and we believe it a fair presumption that secrecy means impropriety.
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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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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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I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.
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It is not an army that we must train for war; it is a nation.
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