Woodrow Wilson Quotes, Long Quotes

They lived long that have lived well.

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A man has deprived himself of the best there is in the world who has deprived himself of this.

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A powerful Navy we have always regarded as our proper and natural means of defense; and it has always been of defense that we have thought, never of aggression or of conquest. But who shall tell us now what sort of Navy to build? We shall take leave to be strong upon the seas, in the future as in the past; and there will be no thought of offense or provocation in that. Our ships are our natural bulwarks.

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You must act in your friends' interests whether it pleases them or not; the object of love is to serve, not to win.

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I am one who fights without a knack of hoping confidentlysimply a Scotch-Irishman who will not be conquered.

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We forget that there is much more patriotism in having the audacity to differ from the majority than in running before the crowd; we forget that in the resistance of the minority some of the biggest things in our own history have been accomplished, and the man who looks on the Stars and Stripes and doesn't hold a right to say nay to his neighbor, even if the neighbor is of the larger party, has forgotten the history of his country.

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Whate'er my doom; It cannot be unhappy: God hath given me The boon of resignation.

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And while you bring all countries with you, you come with a purpose of leaving all other countries behind you - bringing what is best of their spirit, but not looking over your shoulders and seeking to perpetuate what you intended to leave behind in them.

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No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.

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

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Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the sovereignty of self-governing people.

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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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Americanism consists in utterly believing in the principles of America.

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Politics is a war of causes; a joust of principles. Government is too serious a matter to admit of meaningless courtesies.

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The great monopoly in this country is the money monopoly. So long as it exists, our old variety of freedom and individual energy of development are out of the question.

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It does not become America that within her borders, where every man is free to follow the dictates of his conscience, men should raise the cry of church against church. To do that is to strike at the very spirit and heart of America.

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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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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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You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape.

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Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it.

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