We 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.
WOODROW WILSONThere is something better, if possible, that a man can give than his life. That is his living spirit to a service that is not easy, to resist counsels that are hard to resist, to stand against purposes that are difficult to stand against.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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The right is more precious than peace.
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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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The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.
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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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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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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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I believe that soldiers will bear me out in saying that both come in time of battle. I take it that the moral courage comes in going into the battle, and the physical courage in staying in.
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The way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.
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I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being.
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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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Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
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There is something better, if possible, that a man can give than his life. That is his living spirit to a service that is not easy, to resist counsels that are hard to resist, to stand against purposes that are difficult to stand against.
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When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.
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When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you will have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness and your own duty.
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A man’s rootage is more important than his leafage.
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