America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.
WOODROW WILSONEvery people has a right to choose the sovereignty under which they shall live.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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If you wish your children to be Christians you must really take the trouble to be Christian yourselves. Those are the only terms upon which the home will work the gracious miracle.
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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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Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.
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One of the proofs of the divinity of our gospel is the preaching it has survived.
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I do not want a government that will take care of me, I want a government that will make other men take their hands off me so I can take care of myself.
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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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America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness which are derived from the revelations of the Holy Scripture.
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What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.
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There’s not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else’s brains.
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A man’s rootage is more important than his leafage.
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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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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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“Genius is divine perseverance.” Divine patience I believe he originally used, perseverance is better in my opinion. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have.
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It does not become America that within her borders, where every man is free to follow the dictates of his conscience, men should raise the cry of church against church. To do that is to strike at the very spirit and heart of America.
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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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