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This was not after all a conventional war, a struggle between equally predacious powers; it was a war to end all wars.

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It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.

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

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Wilson was once asked how long it took him to write a speech. He answered, 'That depends. If I am to speak 10 minutes, I need a week for preparation. If 15 minutes, 3 days. If half hour, two days. If an hour, I am ready now.'

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America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.

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I have come slowly into possession of such powers as I have. I receive the opinions of my day. I do not conceive them. But I receive them into a vivid mind.

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Have you thought of the sufferings of Armenia? You poured out your money to help succor the Armenians after they suffered; now set your strength so that they shall never suffer again.

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No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acquiescence.

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Statesmen have to bend to the collective will of their peoples or be broken.

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One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty councils. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat. Ay any rate, if it is heat it ought to be white heat and not sputter, because sputtering heat is apt to spread the fire. There ought, if there is any heat at all, to be that warmth of the heart which makes every man thrust aside his own personal feeling, his own personal interest, and take thought of the welfare and benefit of others.

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It is imperative that we should not only master them, but also act upon them, and act very definitely.

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As compared with the college politician, the real article seems like an amateur.

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An evident principleis the principle of justice to all peoples and nationalities, and their right to live on equal terms of liberty and safety with one another, whether they be strong or weak.

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Benevolence does not consist in those who are prosperous pitying and helping those who are not. It consists in fellow feeling that puts you upon actually the same level with the fellow who suffers.

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Only peace between equals can last.

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All things come to him who waits - provided he knows what he is waiting for.

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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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The white men were roused by a mere instinct of self-preservation—until at last there had sprung into existence a great Ku Klux Klan, a veritable empire of the South, to protect the Southern country.

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