You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it.
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 world must be made safe for democracy.
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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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We are intensely proud of their noble record and are glad to have had the whole world see how irresistible they are in their might when a cause which America holds dear is at stake. The whole nation has reason to be proud of them.
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If the colored people made a mistake in voting for me, they ought to correct it.
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Only peace between equals can last.
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When correcting a child, the goal is to apply light, not heat.
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Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting.
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One of the proofs of the divinity of our gospel is the preaching it has survived.
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I would not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with great respect of the past.
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Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse. Untrammeled reasoning is the indulgence of the philosopher, of the dreamer of sweet dreams.
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We came to America, either ourselves or in the persons of our ancestors, to better the ideals of men, to make them see finer things than they had seen before, to get rid of the things that divide and to make sure of the things that unite.
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A man’s rootage is more important than his leafage.
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Every people has a right to choose the sovereignty under which they shall live.
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I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.
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What is the use of voting? We know that the machines of both parties are subsidized by the same persons, and therefore it is useless to turn in either direction.
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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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Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
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We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.
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The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
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Remember that God ordained that I should be the next president of the United States. Neither you nor any other mortal or mortals could have prevented this.
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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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The seed of revolution is repression.
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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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The man who disparages music as a luxury and non-essential is doing the nation an injury. Music now, more than ever before, is a national need.
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A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
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We ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialists–believers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic.
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