Self-determination is not a mere phrase. It is an imperative principle of action, which statesmen will henceforth ignore at their peril.
WOODROW WILSONWe ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialists–believers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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Unless justice be done to others it will not be done to us.
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America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.
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Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
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The great monopoly in this country is the money monopoly. So long as it exists, our old variety of freedom and individual energy of development are out of the question.
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The Bible is the one supreme source of revelation of the meaning of life, the nature of God and spiritual nature and need of men. It is the only guide of life which really leads the spirit in the way of peace and salvation.
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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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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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You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand
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I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being.
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The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.
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To be free is not necessarily to be wise. Wisdom comes with counsel, with the frank and free conference of untrammeled men united in the common interest.
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Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
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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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Benevolence does not consist in those who are prosperous pitying and helping those who are not. It consists in fellow feeling that puts you upon actually the same level with the fellow who suffers.
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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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