We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.
WOODROW WILSONWe 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.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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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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I am sorry for men who do not read the Bible every day. I wonder why they deprive themselves of the strength and pleasure.
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Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence is a practical document for the use of practical men. It is not a thesis for philosophers, but a whip for tyrants; it is not a theory of government but a program of action.
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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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The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.
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A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
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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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It’s harder for a leader to be born in a palace than to be born in a cabin.
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The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
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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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The whole purpose of democracy is that we may hold counsel with one another, so as not to depend upon the understanding of one man.
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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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I had rather have everybody on my side than be armed to the teeth.
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The princes among us are those who forget themselves and serve others.
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This was not after all a conventional war, a struggle between equally predacious powers; it was a war to end all wars.
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