I am the friend of peace and mean to preserve it for America so long as I am able. No course of my choosing or of their (nations at war) will lead to war. War can come only by the wilful acts and aggressions of others.
WOODROW WILSONThere is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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A 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.
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War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.
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We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.
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Never murder a man when he’s busy committing suicide.
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There is something better, if possible, that a man can give than his life. That is his living spirit to a service that is not easy, to resist counsels that are hard to resist, to stand against purposes that are difficult to stand against.
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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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Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.
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The great monopoly in this country is the money monopoly. So long as it exists, our old variety of freedom and individual energy of development are out of the question.
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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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America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.
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There was a time when corporations played a minor part in our business affairs, but now they play the chief part, and most men are the servants of corporations.
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The history of liberty is a history of resistance.
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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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America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.
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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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