Woodrow Wilson Quotes, Military Quotes, Honor Quotes

The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort.

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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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Things get very lonely in Washington sometimes. The real voice of the great people of America sometimes sounds faint and distant in that strange city. You hear politics until you wish that both parties were smothered in their own gas.

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We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study.

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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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There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.

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It was necessary to put the South at a moral disadvantage by transforming the contest from a war waged against states fighting for their indepdence into a war waged against states fighting for the maintenance and extension of slavery...and the world, it might be hoped, would see it as a moral war, not a political; and the sympathy of nations would begin to run for the North, not for the South.

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The law that will work is merely the summing up in legislative form of the moral judgment that the community has already reached.

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The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.

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Only free peoples can hold their purpose and their honor steady to a common end, and prefer the interests of mankind to any narrow interest of their own.

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"Genius is divine perseverance." Divine patience I believe he originally used, perseverance is better in my opinion. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have.

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A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.

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If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if an hour, I am ready now.

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I had rather have everybody on my side than be armed to the teeth.

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That is Gladstone, the greatest statesman that ever lived. I intend to be a statesman, too.

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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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Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.

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A fault which humbles a person is of more use to him or her than a good action which puffs him or her up.

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Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.

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If you would be a leader of men, you must lead your own generation, not the next.

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