The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.
WOODROW WILSONLiberty does not consist in mere declarations of the rights of man. It consists in the translation of those declarations into definite action.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.
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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.
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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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We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.
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The seed of revolution is repression.
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Benevolence does not consist in those who are prosperous pitying and helping those who are not. It consists in fellow feeling that puts you upon actually the same level with the fellow who suffers.
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To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.
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Government, in it’s last analysis, is organized force.
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A man’s rootage is more important than his leafage.
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There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
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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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A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
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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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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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When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.
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