When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.
WOODROW WILSONTo fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fibre of national life.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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America was born a Christian nation.
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The world must be made safe for democracy.
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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.
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I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being.
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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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There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.
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We are not put into this world to sit still and know; we are put into it to act.
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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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One of the proofs of the divinity of our gospel is the preaching it has survived.
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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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When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.
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That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
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The white men were roused by a mere instinct of self-preservation—until at last there had sprung into existence a great Ku Klux Klan, a veritable empire of the South, to protect the Southern country.
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Any man that resists the present tides that run in the world, will find himself thrown upon a shore so high and barren that it will seem he has been separated from his human kind forever.
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Liberty does not consist in mere declarations of the rights of man. It consists in the translation of those declarations into definite action.
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