I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being.
WOODROW WILSONA man’s rootage is more important than his leafage.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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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 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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We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.
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The man who has no vision will undertake no great enterprise.
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Self-determination is not a mere phrase. It is an imperative principle of action, which statesmen will henceforth ignore at their peril.
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We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.
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America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.
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Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.
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“Genius is divine perseverance.” Divine patience I believe he originally used, perseverance is better in my opinion. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have.
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A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
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War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.
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It is not an army that we must train for war; it is a nation.
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Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
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Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
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No people are true Christians who do not think constantly of how they can lift their brother and sister, how they can assist their friends, how they can enlighten mankind, how they can make virtue the rule of conduct in the circle in which they live.
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