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 WILSONWe want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class, of necessity, in every society, to forego the privileges of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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It is not an army that we must train for war; it is a nation.
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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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If the colored people made a mistake in voting for me, they ought to correct it.
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Liberty does not consist in mere declarations of the rights of man. It consists in the translation of those declarations into definite action.
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Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
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To conquer with arms is to make only a temporary conquest; to conquer the world by earning its esteem is to make a permanent conquest.
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The history of liberty is a history of resistance.
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Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.
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We cannot be separated in interest or divided in purpose. We stand together until the end.
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What every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence.
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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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One of the proofs of the divinity of our gospel is the preaching it has survived.
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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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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 not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.
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