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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.
Woodrow Wilson
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Woodrow Wilson
Age: 67 †
Born: 1856
Born: December 28
Died: 1924
Died: February 23
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No peace can last, or ought to last, which does not recognize and accept the principle that governments derive all their just powers from the consent of the governed, and that no right anywhere exists to hand peoples from sovereignty to sovereignty as if they were property.
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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 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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There's not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else's brains.
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Big business is not dangerous because it is big, but because its bigness is an unwholesome inflation created by privileges and exemptions which it ought not to enjoy.
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The princes among us are those who forget themselves and serve others.
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I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.
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Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light...
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I am sorry for those that disagree with me because I know that they are wrong.
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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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We cannot be separated in interest or divided in purpose. We stand together until the end.
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Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little. . . . We must strive for normalcy to reach stability.
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An evident principleis the principle of justice to all peoples and nationalities, and their right to live on equal terms of liberty and safety with one another, whether they be strong or weak.
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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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If you would be a leader of men, you must lead your own generation, not the next.
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No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.
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[We are] no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and the duress of small groups of dominant men.
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America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us...
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There is something better, if possible, that a man can give than his life. That is his living spirit to a service that is not easy, to resist counsels that are hard to resist, to stand against purposes that are difficult to stand against.
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I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being.
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