Every people has a right to choose the sovereignty under which they shall live.
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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Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.
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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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There’s not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else’s brains.
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A fault which humbles a person is of more use to him or her than a good action which puffs him or her up.
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The world must be made safe for democracy.
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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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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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No people are true Christians who do not think constantly of how they can lift their brother and sister, how they can assist their friends, how they can enlighten mankind, how they can make virtue the rule of conduct in the circle in which they live.
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If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. Character is a by-product, and any man who devotes himself to its cultivation in his own case will become a selfish prig.
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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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Conformity will be the only virtue and any man who refuses to conform will have to pay the penalty.
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Today’s greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow.
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At every crisis in one’s life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving.
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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.
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War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.
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