It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilizationitself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things we have always carried closest to our hearts.
WOODROW WILSONI not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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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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Progressiveness means not standing still when everything else is moving.
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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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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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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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Any man that resists the present tides that run in the world, will find himself thrown upon a shore so high and barren that it will seem he has been separated from his human kind forever.
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No man has ever risen to the stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.
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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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Liberty does not consist in mere declarations of the rights of man. It consists in the translation of those declarations into definite action.
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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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If you lose your wealth, you have lost nothing; if you lose your health, you have lost something; but if you lose your character, you have lost everything.
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When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.
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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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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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No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.
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