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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.

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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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The great monopoly in this country is the money monopoly. So long as it exists, our old variety of freedom and individual energy of development are out of the question.
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It is not men that interest or disturb me primarily it is ideas. Ideas live men die.
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There was a time when corporations played a minor part in our business affairs, but now they play the chief part, and most men are the servants of corporations.
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It is a protest against the way the world has worked. (explanation of Bolshevism)
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Politics is a war of causes a joust of principles. Government is too serious a matter to admit of meaningless courtesies.
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They do not need our praise. They do not need that our admiration should sustain them. There is no immortality that is safer than theirs. We come not for their sakes but for our own, in order that we may drink at the same springs of inspiration from which they themselves drank.
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Surely a man has come to himself only when he has found the best that is in him, and has satisfied his heart with the highest achievement he is fit for.
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Death, like the quintessence of otherness, is for others.
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I want to re-echo my hope that we may all work together for a great peace as distinguished from a mean peace.
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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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I would not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with great respect of the past.
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This is history written in lightning.
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No thoughtful man ever came to the end of his life, and had time and a little space of calm from which to look back upon it, who did not know and acknowledge that it was what he had done unselfishly and for others, and nothing else, that satisfied him in the retrospect, and made him feel that he had played the man.
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The great war that broke so suddenly upon the world two years ago, and which has swept up within its flame so great a part of thecivilized world, has affected us very profoundly.... With its causes and its objects we are not concerned. The obscure fountains from which its stupendous flood has burst we are not interested to search for or explore.
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Whate'er my doom It cannot be unhappy: God hath given me The boon of resignation.
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I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being.
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The way to be patriotic in America is not only to love America, but to love the duty that lies nearest to our hand, and to know that in performing it we are serving our country.
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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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Tell me what is right and I will fight for it.
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