If 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.
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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That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
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I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
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To be free is not necessarily to be wise. Wisdom comes with counsel, with the frank and free conference of untrammeled men united in the common interest.
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The history of liberty is a history of resistance.
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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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We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world.
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No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.
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We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.
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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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Has justice ever grown in the soil of absolute power? Has not justice always come from the … heart and spirit of men who resist power?
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Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse. Untrammeled reasoning is the indulgence of the philosopher, of the dreamer of sweet dreams.
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We ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialists–believers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic.
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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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No government has ever been beneficent when the attitude of government was that it was taking care of the people. The only freedom consists in the people taking care of the government.
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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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