The history of liberty is a history of resistance.
WOODROW WILSONHunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the distemper’s that make an ordered life impossible.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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I could see now that a literary education did not fit one for the popular novelist’s trade.Once you had started using words like flavicomous or acroamatic, because you liked the sound of them, you were lost.
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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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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.
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It is not an army that we must train for war; it is a nation.
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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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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.
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A fault which humbles a person is of more use to him or her than a good action which puffs him or her up.
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Benevolence 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.
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Only peace between equals can last.
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I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
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War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.
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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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If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. Character is a by-product, and any man who devotes himself to its cultivation in his own case will become a selfish prig.
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America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.
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One of the proofs of the divinity of our gospel is the preaching it has survived.
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