I believe that soldiers will bear me out in saying that both come in time of battle. I take it that the moral courage comes in going into the battle, and the physical courage in staying in.
WOODROW WILSONTo be free is not necessarily to be wise. Wisdom comes with counsel, with the frank and free conference of untrammeled men united in the common interest.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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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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When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.
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It is not an army that we must train for war; it is a nation.
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That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
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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.
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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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We are intensely proud of their noble record and are glad to have had the whole world see how irresistible they are in their might when a cause which America holds dear is at stake. The whole nation has reason to be proud of them.
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Government ought to be all outside and no inside. Everybody knows that corruption thrives in secret places, and avoids public places, and we believe it a fair presumption that secrecy means impropriety.
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Has justice ever grown in the soil of absolute power? Has not justice always come from the … heart and spirit of men who resist power?
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No people are true Christians who do not think constantly of how they can lift their brother and sister, how they can assist their friends, how they can enlighten mankind, how they can make virtue the rule of conduct in the circle in which they live.
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The man who has no vision will undertake no great enterprise.
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We grow by our dreams.
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If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.
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A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
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I had rather have everybody on my side than be armed to the teeth.
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