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Liberty does not consist in mere declarations of the rights of man. It consists in the translation of those declarations into definite action.
Woodrow Wilson
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Woodrow Wilson
Age: 67 †
Born: 1856
Born: December 28
Died: 1924
Died: February 23
28Th U.S. President
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Every people has a right to choose the sovereignty under which they shall live.
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The difference between a strong man and a weak one is that the former does not give up after a defeat.
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I could see now that a literary education did not fit one for the popular novelist's trade.Once you had started using words like flavicomous or acroamatic, because you liked the sound of them, you were lost.
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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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Every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells, and when I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing. The mischief of it is that when they swell, they do not swell enough to burst.
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The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.
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At last a vision has been vouchsafed to us of our life as a whole. We see the bad with the good.... With this vision we approach new affairs. Our duty is to cleanse, to reconsider, to restore, to correct the evil without impairing the good, to purify and humanize every process of our common life, without weakening or sentimentalizing it.
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No nation is fit to sit in judgement upon any other nation.
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At every crisis in one's life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving.
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I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool, the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.
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Movies are like writing history with lightning.
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Has justice ever grown in the soil of absolute power? Has not justice always come from the ... heart and spirit of men who resist power?
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Energy in a nation is like sap in a tree it rises from bottom up.
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Every great man of business has got somewhere a touch of the idealist in him.
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If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
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Only peace between equals can last.
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