Woodrow Wilson Quotes, Heart Quotes, Patriotic Quotes

Some Americans need hyphens in their names, because only part of them has come over; but when the whole man has come over, heart and thought and all, the hyphen drops of its own weight out of his name.

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Liberty is its own reward.

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The only place in the world that nothing has to be explained to me is the South.

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When correcting a child, the goal is to apply light, not heat.

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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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I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.

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Neutrality is a negative word. It is a word that does not express what America ought to feel. America has a heart, and that heart throbs with all sorts of intense sympathies... We are not trying to keep out of trouble; we are trying to preserve the foundations upon which peace can be rebuilt.

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One of the proofs of the divinity of our gospel is the preaching it has survived.

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We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.

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We [Americans] have a great ardor for gain; but we have a deep passion for the rights of man.

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What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.

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You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand

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The Government of the United States would be constrained to hold the Imperial German government to a strict accountability for such acts of their naval authorities.

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It is not an army that we must train for war; it is a nation.

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There is no indispensable man. The government will not collapse and go to pieces if any one of the gentlemen who are seeking to be entrusted with its guidance should be left at home.

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The Americans who went to Europe to die are a unique breed.... (They) crossed the seas to a foreign land to fight for a cause which they did not pretend was peculiarly their own, which they knew was the cause of humanity and mankind. These Americans gave the greatest of all gifts, the gift of life and the gift of spirit.

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It is the object of learning, not only to satisfy the curiosity and perfect the spirits of ordinary men, but also to advance civilization.

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A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what we have been about.

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The ordinary literary man, even though he be an eminent historian, is ill-fitted to be a mentor in affairs of government. For... things are for the most part very simple in books, and in practical life very complex.

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If the colored people made a mistake in voting for me, they ought to correct it.

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