I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.
WOODROW WILSONThis was not after all a conventional war, a struggle between equally predacious powers; it was a war to end all wars.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know
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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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Government, in it’s last analysis, is organized force.
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You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it.
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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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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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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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The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.
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We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.
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Power consists in one’s capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.
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A presidential campaign may easily degenerate into a mere personal contest, and so lose its real dignity. There is no indispensable man.
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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 have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty, and business liberty, and every other kind of liberty, in the phrase that is common in the sporting world, ‘A free field and no favor.’
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To conquer with arms is to make only a temporary conquest; to conquer the world by earning its esteem is to make a permanent conquest.
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Character, my friends, is a byproduct. It is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.
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