Woodrow Wilson Quotes, Rights Quotes, People Quotes

The flag of the United States has not been created by rhetorical sentences in declarations of independence and in bills of rights. It has been created by the experience of a great people, and nothing is written upon it that has not been written by their life. It is the embodiment, not of a sentiment, but of a history.

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I am so glad that I am young, so that I may give my youth to you.

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No man has ever risen to the stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.

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Surely a man has come to himself only when he has found the best that is in him, and has satisfied his heart with the highest achievement he is fit for.

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It is a protest against the way the world has worked. (explanation of Bolshevism)

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Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse.

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The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them.

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At last a vision has been vouchsafed to us of our life as a whole. We see the bad with the good.... With this vision we approach new affairs. Our duty is to cleanse, to reconsider, to restore, to correct the evil without impairing the good, to purify and humanize every process of our common life, without weakening or sentimentalizing it.

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I used to be a lawyer, but now I am a reformed character.

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But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts

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Energy in a nation is like sap in a tree; it rises from bottom up.

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It recognizes no morality but a sham morality meant for deceit, no honor even among thieves and of a thievish sort, no force but physical force, no intellectual power but cunning, no disgrace but failure, no crime but stupidity.

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Such a mind we must desire to see in a woman,--a mind that stirs without irritating you, that arouses but does not belabour, amuses and yet subtly instructs.

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The interesting and inspiring thing about America is that she asks nothing for herself except what she has a right to ask for humanity itself.

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We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.

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If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if an hour, I am ready now.

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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 man who reads everything is like the man who eats everything: he can digest nothing, and the penalty of crowding one's mind with other men's thoughts is to have no thoughts of one's own.

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Open covenants of peace, openly arrived at.

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We shall not, I believe, be obliged to alter our policy of watchful waiting.

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