Government ought to be all outside and no inside. Everybody knows that corruption thrives in secret places, and avoids public places, and we believe it a fair presumption that secrecy means impropriety.
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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The history of liberty is a history of resistance.
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I would not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with great respect of the past.
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America was born a Christian nation.
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Every people has a right to choose the sovereignty under which they shall live.
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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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It’s harder for a leader to be born in a palace than to be born in a cabin.
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A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
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There is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.
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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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A fault which humbles a person is of more use to him or her than a good action which puffs him or her up.
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We must believe the things We teach our children
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We ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialists–believers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic.
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Only peace between equals can last.
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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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One of the proofs of the divinity of our gospel is the preaching it has survived.
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