Woodrow Wilson Quotes, War Quotes, Flames Quotes

The great war that broke so suddenly upon the world two years ago, and which has swept up within its flame so great a part of thecivilized world, has affected us very profoundly.... With its causes and its objects we are not concerned. The obscure fountains from which its stupendous flood has burst we are not interested to search for or explore.

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If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. Character is a by-product, and any man who devotes himself to its cultivation in his own case will become a selfish prig.

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America is not a mere body of traders; it is a body of free men. Our greatness is built upon our freedom - is moral, not material. We have a great ardor for gain; but we have a deep passion for the rights of man.

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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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Never attempt to murder a man who is committing suicide.

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There was a time when corporations played a minor part in our business affairs, but now they play the chief part, and most men are the servants of corporations.

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No government has ever been beneficent when the attitude of government was that it was taking care of the people. The only freedom consists in the people taking care of the government.

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I have sometimes heard men say politics must have nothing to do with business, and I have often wished that business had nothing to do with politics.

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High society is for those who have stopped working and no longer have anything important to do.

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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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There is here a great melting pot in which we must compound a precious metal. That metal is the metal of nationality.

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When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you will have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness and your own duty.

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From the dim morning hours of history when the father was king and priest down to this modern time of history's high noon when nations stand forth full grown and self-governed, the law of coherence and continuity in political development has suffered no serious breach.

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The growth of our nation and all its activities are in the hands of a few men.

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What every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence.

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The beauty of a democracy is that you never can tell when a youngster is born what he is going to do with himself, and that no matter how humbly he is born, no matter where he is born, no matter what circumstances hamper him at the outset, he has got a chance to master the minds and lead the imaginations of the whole country.

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The right is more precious than peace.

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If you wish your children to be Christians you must really take the trouble to be Christian yourselves. Those are the only terms upon which the home will work the gracious miracle.

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No nation is fit to sit in judgement upon any other nation.

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We are not put into this world to sit still and know; we are put into it to act.

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