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There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
Woodrow Wilson
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Woodrow Wilson
Age: 67 †
Born: 1856
Born: December 28
Died: 1924
Died: February 23
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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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A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
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The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.
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The seed of revolution is repression.
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Washington has seldom seen so numerous, so industrious or so insidious a lobby. There is every evidence that money without limit is being spent to sustain this lobby.... I know that in this I am speaking for the members of the two houses, who would rejoice as much as I would to be released from this unbearable situation.
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You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it.
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The history of liberty is the history of limitations on the power of government, not the increase of it. When we resist, therefore, the concentration of power, we are resisting the processes of death, because concentration of power is what always precedes the destruction of human liberties.
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Our object now, as then, is to vindicate the principles of peace and justice in the life of the world as against selfish and autocratic power, and to set up among the really free and self-governed peoples of the world such a concert of purpose and of action as will henceforth insure the observance of those principles.
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I had rather be defeated in a cause that will ultimately triumph than triumph in a cause that will ultimately be defeated.
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The commands of democracy are as imperative as its privileges and opportunities are wide and generous. Its compulsion is upon us.
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Government ought to be all outside and no inside. . . . Everybody knows that corruption thrives in secret places, and avoids public places, and we believe it a fair presumption that secrecy means impropriety.
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To conquer with arms is to make only a temporary conquest to conquer the world by earning its esteem is to make a permanent conquest.
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Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.
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There is such a thing as man being too proud to fight. There is such a thing as a nation being so right that it does not need to convince others by force that it is right.
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If I cannot retain my moral influence over a man except by occasionally knocking him down, if that is the only basis upon which he will respect me, then for the sake of his soul I have got occasionally to knock him down.
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The Constitution was not made to fit us like a straitjacket. In its elasticity lies its chief greatness.
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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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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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I am all kinds of a democrat, so far as I can discover but the root of the whole business is this, that I believe in the patriotism and energy and initiative of the average man.
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We are in the presence of a new organization of society. Our life has broken away from the past.
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