We are not put into this world to sit still and know; we are put into it to act.
WOODROW WILSONLoyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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We cannot be separated in interest or divided in purpose. We stand together until the end.
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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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A presidential campaign may easily degenerate into a mere personal contest, and so lose its real dignity. There is no indispensable man.
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The right is more precious than peace.
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We 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.
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We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.
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Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
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Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
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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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Responsibility is proportionate to opportunity.
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I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.
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There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.
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I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being.
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One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
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