When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.
WOODROW WILSONI am the friend of peace and mean to preserve it for America so long as I am able. No course of my choosing or of their (nations at war) will lead to war. War can come only by the wilful acts and aggressions of others.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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The man who disparages music as a luxury and non-essential is doing the nation an injury. Music now, more than ever before, is a national need.
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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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There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.
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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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Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
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Any man that resists the present tides that run in the world, will find himself thrown upon a shore so high and barren that it will seem he has been separated from his human kind forever.
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I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.
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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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The right is more precious than peace.
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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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I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.
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The truth is we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless.
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Men are not put into this world to go the path of ease, they are put into this world to go the path of pain and struggle.
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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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I could see now that a literary education did not fit one for the popular novelist’s trade.Once you had started using words like flavicomous or acroamatic, because you liked the sound of them, you were lost.
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