Self-determination is not a mere phrase. It is an imperative principle of action, which statesmen will henceforth ignore at their peril.
WOODROW WILSONIf you want to make enemies, try to change something.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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Absolute identity with one’s cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
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No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
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We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.
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A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
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We are not put into this world to sit still and know; we are put into it to act.
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All things come to him who waits – provided he knows what he is waiting for.
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The fewer the desires, the more peace.
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There is something better, if possible, that a man can give than his life. That is his living spirit to a service that is not easy, to resist counsels that are hard to resist, to stand against purposes that are difficult to stand against.
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Big business is not dangerous because it is big, but because its bigness is an unwholesome inflation created by privileges and exemptions which it ought not to enjoy.
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We grow by our dreams.
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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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If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if an hour, I am ready now.
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The way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.
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A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
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The white men were roused by a mere instinct of self-preservation—until at last there had sprung into existence a great Ku Klux Klan, a veritable empire of the South, to protect the Southern country.
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