I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.
WOODROW WILSONNo man has ever risen to the stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand
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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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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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Conformity will be the only virtue and any man who refuses to conform will have to pay the penalty.
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I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being.
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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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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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This was not after all a conventional war, a struggle between equally predacious powers; it was a war to end all wars.
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I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
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We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world.
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You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
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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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Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
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A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
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We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class, of necessity, in every society, to forego the privileges of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks.
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