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.
WOODROW WILSONIt is not an army that we must train for war; it is a nation.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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Every people has a right to choose the sovereignty under which they shall live.
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I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.
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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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No man has ever risen to the stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.
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No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know
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We are no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and the duress of small groups of dominant men.
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The masters of the government of the United States are the combined capitalists and manufacturers of the United States.
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Absolute identity with one’s cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
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The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
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I have the feeling that he would rather see a good cause fail than succeed if he were not the head of it.
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The Bible is the one supreme source of revelation of the meaning of life, the nature of God and spiritual nature and need of men. It is the only guide of life which really leads the spirit in the way of peace and salvation.
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Men grow by having responsibility laid upon them.
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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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The world must be made safe for democracy.
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A man’s rootage is more important than his leafage.
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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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We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.
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I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool, the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.
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Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God.
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When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you will have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness and your own duty.
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A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
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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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Any man that resists the present tides that run in the world, will find himself thrown upon a shore so high and barren that it will seem he has been separated from his human kind forever.
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You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
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Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.
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The world can be at peace only if the world is stable, and there can be no stability where the will is in rebellion, where there is not tranquility of spirit and a sense of justice, of freedom, and of right.
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