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.
WOODROW WILSONI had rather have everybody on my side than be armed to the teeth.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if an hour, I am ready now.
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If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
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The way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.
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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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There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.
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Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
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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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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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Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.
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We ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialists–believers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic.
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It is not an army that we must train for war; it is a nation.
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Only peace between equals can last.
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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 have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.
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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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Remember that God ordained that I should be the next president of the United States. Neither you nor any other mortal or mortals could have prevented this.
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I have the feeling that he would rather see a good cause fail than succeed if he were not the head of it.
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I am not one of those who believe that a great standing army is the means of maintaining peace, because if you build up a great profession those who form parts of it want to exercise their profession.
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No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know
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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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We must believe the things We teach our children
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The man who has no vision will undertake no great enterprise.
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The cure for bad politics is the same as the cure for tuberculosis. It is living in the open.
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The world must be made safe for democracy.
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I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool, the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.
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That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
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