Every people has a right to choose the sovereignty under which they shall live.
WOODROW WILSONAmerica is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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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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Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
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The great monopoly in this country is the money monopoly. So long as it exists, our old variety of freedom and individual energy of development are out of the question.
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I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.
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The masters of the government of the United States are the combined capitalists and manufacturers of the United States.
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The man who reads everything is like the man who eats everything: he can digest nothing, and the penalty of crowding one’s mind with other men’s thoughts is to have no thoughts of one’s own.
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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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We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.
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You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it.
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At every crisis in one’s life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving.
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There’s not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else’s brains.
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Never murder a man when he’s busy committing suicide.
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Self-determination is not a mere phrase. It is an imperative principle of action, which statesmen will henceforth ignore at their peril.
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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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The shadows that now lie dark upon our path will soon be dispelled and we shall walk with the light all about us if we but be true to ourselves.
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