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Woodrow Wilson

A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
WOODROW WILSON

Change Consult Doubt
I 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.
WOODROW WILSON

Act Aggression Choice Friendship Myself Nation Peace Willing
The white men were roused by a mere instinct of self-preservation—until at last there had sprung into existence a great Ku Klux Klan, a veritable empire of the South, to protect the Southern country.
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Country Existence Man Protection White
The world can be at peace only if the world is stable, and there can be no stability where the will is in rebellion, where there is not tranquility of spirit and a sense of justice, of freedom, and of right.
WOODROW WILSON

Freedom Justice Peace Right Stability World
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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Balance Carry Closet Fear Greatness Heart Peace People Terrible
All things come to him who waits – provided he knows what he is waiting for.
WOODROW WILSON

Knowledge Patience Wait Wisdom
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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Luxury Man Music National Need
The way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.
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Financial Mobile Stop Way
The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.
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Emotion Flag History
Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence is a practical document for the use of practical men. It is not a thesis for philosophers, but a whip for tyrants; it is not a theory of government but a program of action.
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Action Document Government Independence Practical Program Theory
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.
WOODROW WILSON

Border Conscience Dictate Heart Himself Spirit
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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Peace Price Respect
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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Government Help Man Representation Willing
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.
WOODROW WILSON

Happiness Noble Proud Reason Record
A man’s rootage is more important than his leafage.
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Himself Important Man
Unless justice be done to others it will not be done to us.
WOODROW WILSON

Justice Ourselves People

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