Men are not put into this world to go the path of ease, they are put into this world to go the path of pain and struggle.
WOODROW WILSONIf you want to make enemies, try to change something.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
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Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.
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I have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty, and business liberty, and every other kind of liberty, in the phrase that is common in the sporting world, ‘A free field and no favor.’
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America was born a Christian nation.
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I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.
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A man’s rootage is more important than his leafage.
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Is there any man here or any woman, let me say is there any child here, who does not know that the seed of war in the modern world is industrial and commercial rivalry?
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No man has ever risen to the stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.
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Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.
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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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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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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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A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what we have been about.
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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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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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