The roll of honor consists of the names of meant who have squared their conduct by ideals of duty.
WOODROW WILSONHas 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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There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.
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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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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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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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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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Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting.
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Only peace between equals can last.
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I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.
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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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At every crisis in one’s life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving.
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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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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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When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.
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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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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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