When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.
WOODROW WILSONMen 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.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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The history of liberty is a history of resistance.
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I have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty, and business liberty, and every other kind of liberty, in the phrase that is common in the sporting world, ‘A free field and no favor.’
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Remember that God ordained that I should be the next president of the United States. Neither you nor any other mortal or mortals could have prevented this.
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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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Character, my friends, is a byproduct. It is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.
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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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There’s not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else’s brains.
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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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Big business is not dangerous because it is big, but because its bigness is an unwholesome inflation created by privileges and exemptions which it ought not to enjoy.
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Sometimes 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.
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Never murder a man when he’s busy committing suicide.
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You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand
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When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you will have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness and your own duty.
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Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
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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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