This was not after all a conventional war, a struggle between equally predacious powers; it was a war to end all wars.
WOODROW WILSONThe man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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I have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty, and business liberty, and every other kind of liberty, in the phrase that is common in the sporting world, ‘A free field and no favor.’
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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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If you lose your wealth, you have lost nothing; if you lose your health, you have lost something; but if you lose your character, you have lost everything.
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Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.
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I had rather have everybody on my side than be armed to the teeth.
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We came to America, either ourselves or in the persons of our ancestors, to better the ideals of men, to make them see finer things than they had seen before, to get rid of the things that divide and to make sure of the things that unite.
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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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It’s harder for a leader to be born in a palace than to be born in a cabin.
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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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Men grow by having responsibility laid upon them.
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There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
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War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.
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Every people has a right to choose the sovereignty under which they shall live.
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Men are not put into this world to go the path of ease, they are put into this world to go the path of pain and struggle.
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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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