This was not after all a conventional war, a struggle between equally predacious powers; it was a war to end all wars.
WOODROW WILSONTo conquer with arms is to make only a temporary conquest; to conquer the world by earning its esteem is to make a permanent conquest.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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The seed of revolution is repression.
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As a matter of fact and experience, the more power is divided the more irresponsible it becomes.
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I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being.
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Self-determination is not a mere phrase. It is an imperative principle of action, which statesmen will henceforth ignore at their peril.
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I have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty, and business liberty, and every other kind of liberty, in the phrase that is common in the sporting world, ‘A free field and no favor.’
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The great monopoly in this country is the money monopoly. So long as it exists, our old variety of freedom and individual energy of development are out of the question.
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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.
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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 government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.
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We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class, of necessity, in every society, to forego the privileges of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks.
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The way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.
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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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The sum of the whole matter is this – our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually.
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The world can be at peace only if the world is stable, and there can be no stability where the will is in rebellion, where there is not tranquility of spirit and a sense of justice, of freedom, and of right.
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We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.
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