There is something better, if possible, that a man can give than his life. That is his living spirit to a service that is not easy, to resist counsels that are hard to resist, to stand against purposes that are difficult to stand against.
WOODROW WILSONIs there any man here or any woman, let me say is there any child here, who does not know that the seed of war in the modern world is industrial and commercial rivalry?
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness which are derived from the revelations of the Holy Scripture.
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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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Men grow by having responsibility laid upon them.
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I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool, the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.
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The fewer the desires, the more peace.
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The great monopoly in this country is the money monopoly. So long as it exists, our old variety of freedom and individual energy of development are out of the question.
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No man ever saw a government. I live in the midst of the Government of the United States, but I never saw the Government of the United States.
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What every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence.
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We grow by our dreams.
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America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.
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Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
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Progressiveness means not standing still when everything else is moving.
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Absolute identity with one’s cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
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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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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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