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.
WOODROW WILSONThe 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.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it.
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Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
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To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fibre of national life.
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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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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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If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.
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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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The whole purpose of democracy is that we may hold counsel with one another, so as not to depend upon the understanding of one man.
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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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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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War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.
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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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The seed of revolution is repression.
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Never murder a man when he’s busy committing suicide.
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Segregation is not humiliating but a benefit.
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