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The flag is a flag of liberty of opinion as well as of political liberty.
Woodrow Wilson
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Woodrow Wilson
Age: 67 †
Born: 1856
Born: December 28
Died: 1924
Died: February 23
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The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.
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Justice has nothing to do with expediency. Justice has nothing to do with any temporary standard whatever. It is rooted and grounded in the fundamental instincts of humanity.
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A radical is one of whom people say ''He goes too far.'' A conservative, on the other hand, is one who ''doesn't go far enough.'' Then there is the reactionary, ''one who doesn't go at all.'' All these terms are more or less objectionable, wherefore we have
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It has become a people's war, and peoples of all sorts and races, of every degree of power and variety of fortune, are involved inits sweeping processes of change and settlement.
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The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them.
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Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse.
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A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
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I am not willing to be drawn further into the toils. I cannot accede to the acceptance of gifts upon terms which take the educational policy of the university out of the hands of the Trustees and Faculty and permit it to be determined by those who give money.
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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 profession I chose was politics the profession I entered was law. I entered the one because I thought it would lead to the other.
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I want the people to love me, but I suppose they never will.
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A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
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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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Only peace between equals can last.
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I believe very profoundly in an over-ruling Providence, and I do not fear that any real plans can be thrown off the track. It maynot be intended that I shall be President--but that would not break my heart.
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Every people has a right to choose the sovereignty under which they shall live.
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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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The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort.
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You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.
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If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.
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