I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.
WOODROW WILSONIf 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.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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The man who disparages music as a luxury and non-essential is doing the nation an injury. Music now, more than ever before, is a national need.
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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.
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It does not become America that within her borders, where every man is free to follow the dictates of his conscience, men should raise the cry of church against church. To do that is to strike at the very spirit and heart of America.
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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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Progressiveness means not standing still when everything else is moving.
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If the colored people made a mistake in voting for me, they ought to correct it.
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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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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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To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fibre of national life.
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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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There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
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I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.
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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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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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