Self-determination is not a mere phrase. It is an imperative principle of action, which statesmen will henceforth ignore at their peril.
WOODROW WILSONSometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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The princes among us are those who forget themselves and serve others.
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Today’s greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow.
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Has justice ever grown in the soil of absolute power? Has not justice always come from the … heart and spirit of men who resist power?
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The truth is we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless.
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The history of liberty is a history of resistance.
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If you wish your children to be Christians you must really take the trouble to be Christian yourselves. Those are the only terms upon which the home will work the gracious miracle.
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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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That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
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The roll of honor consists of the names of meant who have squared their conduct by ideals of duty.
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To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.
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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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The shadows that now lie dark upon our path will soon be dispelled and we shall walk with the light all about us if we but be true to ourselves.
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The cure for bad politics is the same as the cure for tuberculosis. It is living in the open.
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We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.
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No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.
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