War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.
WOODROW WILSONI 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.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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There was a time when corporations played a minor part in our business affairs, but now they play the chief part, and most men are the servants of corporations.
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A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.
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When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.
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If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.
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To be free is not necessarily to be wise. Wisdom comes with counsel, with the frank and free conference of untrammeled men united in the common interest.
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What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.
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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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The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.
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Government ought to be all outside and no inside. Everybody knows that corruption thrives in secret places, and avoids public places, and we believe it a fair presumption that secrecy means impropriety.
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We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.
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There is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.
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Every people has a right to choose the sovereignty under which they shall live.
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The shadows that now lie dark upon our path will soon be dispelled and we shall walk with the light all about us if we but be true to ourselves.
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Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
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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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