We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.
WOODROW WILSONWe must believe the things We teach our children
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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Every people has a right to choose the sovereignty under which they shall live.
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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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What every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence.
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Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
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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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There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
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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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When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you will have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness and your own duty.
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Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.
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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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No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.
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If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
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Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the distemper’s that make an ordered life impossible.
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America was born a Christian nation.
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Only peace between equals can last.
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We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.
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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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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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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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Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
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Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting.
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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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The history of liberty is a history of resistance.
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If the colored people made a mistake in voting for me, they ought to correct it.
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If you wish your children to be Christians you must really take the trouble to be Christian yourselves. Those are the only terms upon which the home will work the gracious miracle.
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If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. Character is a by-product, and any man who devotes himself to its cultivation in his own case will become a selfish prig.
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