This was not after all a conventional war, a struggle between equally predacious powers; it was a war to end all wars.
WOODROW WILSONPower consists in one’s capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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I had rather have everybody on my side than be armed to the teeth.
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The world must be made safe for democracy.
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The man who reads everything is like the man who eats everything: he can digest nothing, and the penalty of crowding one’s mind with other men’s thoughts is to have no thoughts of one’s own.
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We grow by our dreams.
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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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America was born a Christian nation.
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One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
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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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It’s harder for a leader to be born in a palace than to be born in a cabin.
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Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the distemper’s that make an ordered life impossible.
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It does not become America that within her borders, where every man is free to follow the dictates of his conscience, men should raise the cry of church against church. To do that is to strike at the very spirit and heart of America.
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We are intensely proud of their noble record and are glad to have had the whole world see how irresistible they are in their might when a cause which America holds dear is at stake. The whole nation has reason to be proud of them.
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The sum of the whole matter is this – our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually.
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We came to America, either ourselves or in the persons of our ancestors, to better the ideals of men, to make them see finer things than they had seen before, to get rid of the things that divide and to make sure of the things that unite.
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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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