If you lose your wealth, you have lost nothing; if you lose your health, you have lost something; but if you lose your character, you have lost everything.
WOODROW WILSONA radical is one of whom people say ”He goes too far.” A conservative, on the other hand, is one who ”doesn’t go far enough.” Then there is the reactionary, ”one who doesn’t go at all.” All these terms are more or less objectionable, wherefore we have.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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The cure for bad politics is the same as the cure for tuberculosis. It is living in the open.
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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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The world must be made safe for democracy.
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I do not want a government that will take care of me, I want a government that will make other men take their hands off me so I can take care of myself.
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We are not put into this world to sit still and know; we are put into it to act.
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Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
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America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.
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We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world.
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We cannot be separated in interest or divided in purpose. We stand together until the end.
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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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I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being.
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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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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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Self-determination is not a mere phrase. It is an imperative principle of action, which statesmen will henceforth ignore at their peril.
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A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what we have been about.
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