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.
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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The world can be at peace only if the world is stable, and there can be no stability where the will is in rebellion, where there is not tranquility of spirit and a sense of justice, of freedom, and of right.
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The right is more precious than peace.
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Progressiveness means not standing still when everything else is moving.
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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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There was a time when corporations played a minor part in our business affairs, but now they play the chief part, and most men are the servants of corporations.
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It’s harder for a leader to be born in a palace than to be born in a cabin.
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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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The seed of revolution is repression.
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The truth is we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless.
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A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.
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There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.
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War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.
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The roll of honor consists of the names of meant who have squared their conduct by ideals of duty.
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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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That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
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