A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
WOODROW WILSONIt is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilizationitself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things we have always carried closest to our hearts.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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The whole purpose of democracy is that we may hold counsel with one another, so as not to depend upon the understanding of one man.
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What is the use of voting? We know that the machines of both parties are subsidized by the same persons, and therefore it is useless to turn in either direction.
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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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It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilizationitself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things we have always carried closest to our hearts.
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One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
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The history of liberty is a history of resistance.
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Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
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I would not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with great respect of the past.
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Never murder a man when he’s busy committing suicide.
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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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Thought cannot conceive of anything that may not be brought to expression. He who first uttered it may be only the suggester, but the doer will appear.
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We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.
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No people are true Christians who do not think constantly of how they can lift their brother and sister, how they can assist their friends, how they can enlighten mankind, how they can make virtue the rule of conduct in the circle in which they live.
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All things come to him who waits – provided he knows what he is waiting for.
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To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fibre of national life.
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