The right is more precious than peace.
WOODROW WILSONThe roll of honor consists of the names of meant who have squared their conduct by ideals of duty.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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The world must be made safe for democracy.
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The way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.
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It’s harder for a leader to be born in a palace than to be born in a cabin.
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No government has ever been beneficent when the attitude of government was that it was taking care of the people. The only freedom consists in the people taking care of the government.
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Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord’s Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
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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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Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence is a practical document for the use of practical men. It is not a thesis for philosophers, but a whip for tyrants; it is not a theory of government but a program of action.
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America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.
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We cannot be separated in interest or divided in purpose. We stand together until the end.
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I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.
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No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.
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Conformity will be the only virtue and any man who refuses to conform will have to pay the penalty.
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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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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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The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.
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