Woodrow Wilson Quotes, War Quotes, Son Quotes

I came from the South and I know what war is, for I have seen its wreckage and terrible ruin. It is easy for me as President to declare war. I do not have to fight, and neither do the gentlemen on the Hill who now clamour for it. It is some poor farmer's boy, or son of some poor widow away off in some modest community, or perhaps the scion of a great family, who will have to do the fighting.

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Your real statesman is first of all, and chief of all, a great human being, with an eye for all the great fields on which men likehimself struggle, with unflagging, pathetic hope, toward better things.... He is a guide, a counselor, a mentor, a servant, a friend of mankind.

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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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Movies are like writing history with lightning.

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As a matter of fact and experience, the more power is divided the more irresponsible it becomes.

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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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Justice, and only justice, shall always be our motto.

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I confess my belief in the common man.... The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.... The man who is in the melee knows what blows are being struck and what blood is being drawn.

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A sure sign of an amateur is too much detail to compensate for too little life.

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Tolerance is an admirable intellectual gift; but it is of little worth in politics.

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

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Government is not a warfare of interests.

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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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They [the children] live in a world of delightful imagination; they pursue persons and objects that never existed; they make an Argosy laden with gold out of a floating butterfly,--and these stupid [grown-up people] try to translate these things into uninteresting facts.

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America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal - to discover and maintain liberty among men.

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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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Only a peace between equals can last. Only a peace the very principle of which is equality and a common participation in a common benefit.

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Every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells, and when I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing. The mischief of it is that when they swell, they do not swell enough to burst.

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There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight.

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