America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.
WOODROW WILSONNever murder a man when he’s busy committing suicide.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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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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A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.
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What is the use of voting? We know that the machines of both parties are subsidized by the same persons, and therefore it is useless to turn in either direction.
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You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it.
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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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When correcting a child, the goal is to apply light, not heat.
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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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If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if an hour, I am ready now.
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This was not after all a conventional war, a struggle between equally predacious powers; it was a war to end all wars.
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The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.
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You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand
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It does not become America that within her borders, where every man is free to follow the dictates of his conscience, men should raise the cry of church against church. To do that is to strike at the very spirit and heart of America.
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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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