If the colored people made a mistake in voting for me, they ought to correct it.
WOODROW WILSONWe grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.
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If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if an hour, I am ready now.
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Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God.
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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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I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being.
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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 fewer the desires, the more peace.
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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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It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilizationitself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things we have always carried closest to our hearts.
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Every people has a right to choose the sovereignty under which they shall live.
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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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You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it.
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Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.
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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.
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When correcting a child, the goal is to apply light, not heat.
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