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.
WOODROW WILSONIf you want to make enemies, try to change something.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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There is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.
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I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being.
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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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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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I do not want a government that will take care of me, I want a government that will make other men take their hands off me so I can take care of myself.
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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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High society is for those who have stopped working and no longer have anything important to do.
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Liberty does not consist in mere declarations of the rights of man. It consists in the translation of those declarations into definite action.
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Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.
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We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.
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The man who disparages music as a luxury and non-essential is doing the nation an injury. Music now, more than ever before, is a national need.
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America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.
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Conformity will be the only virtue and any man who refuses to conform will have to pay the penalty.
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I would not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with great respect of the past.
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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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