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.
WOODROW WILSONI would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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Responsibility is proportionate to opportunity.
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A radical is one of whom people say ”He goes too far.” A conservative, on the other hand, is one who ”doesn’t go far enough.” Then there is the reactionary, ”one who doesn’t go at all.” All these terms are more or less objectionable, wherefore we have.
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Men grow by having responsibility laid upon them.
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Government, in it’s last analysis, is organized force.
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We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.
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I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.
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The masters of the government of the United States are the combined capitalists and manufacturers of the United States.
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We are no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and the duress of small groups of dominant men.
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A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
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War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.
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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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The object of love is to serve, not to win.
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I am not one of those who believe that a great standing army is the means of maintaining peace, because if you build up a great profession those who form parts of it want to exercise their profession.
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There was a time when corporations played a minor part in our business affairs, but now they play the chief part, and most men are the servants of corporations.
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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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