Only peace between equals can last.
WOODROW WILSONBenevolence does not consist in those who are prosperous pitying and helping those who are not. It consists in fellow feeling that puts you upon actually the same level with the fellow who suffers.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool, the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.
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I am the friend of peace and mean to preserve it for America so long as I am able. No course of my choosing or of their (nations at war) will lead to war. War can come only by the wilful acts and aggressions of others.
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The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.
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Conformity will be the only virtue and any man who refuses to conform will have to pay the penalty.
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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.
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Unless justice be done to others it will not be done to us.
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There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.
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I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
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A radical is one of whom people say ”He goes too far.” A conservative, on the other hand, is one who ”doesn’t go far enough.” Then there is the reactionary, ”one who doesn’t go at all.” All these terms are more or less objectionable, wherefore we have.
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Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the distemper’s that make an ordered life impossible.
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The truth is we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless.
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The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them.
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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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Absolute identity with one’s cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
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We are no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and the duress of small groups of dominant men.
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