The right is more precious than peace.
WOODROW WILSONIf a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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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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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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You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
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America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.
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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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This was not after all a conventional war, a struggle between equally predacious powers; it was a war to end all wars.
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Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.
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Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the distemper’s that make an ordered life impossible.
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Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.
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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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We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.
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Thought cannot conceive of anything that may not be brought to expression. He who first uttered it may be only the suggester, but the doer will appear.
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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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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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It is not an army that we must train for war; it is a nation.
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