Woodrow Wilson Short Quotes

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Armed neutrality is ineffectual enough at best.

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Armed neutrality, it now appears, is impracticable.

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If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

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America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.

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America can not be an ostrich with its head in the sand.

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Gossips are only sociologists upon a mean and petty scale.

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No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation.

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Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse.

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A nation is as great, and only as great, as her rank and file.

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Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God.

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The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.

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No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.

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Where the great force lies, there must be the sanction of peace.

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There is no more subtle dissolvent of morals than sentimentality.

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Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.

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Freedom exists only where the people take care of the government.

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I am so glad that I am young, so that I may give my youth to you.

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I had rather have everybody on my side than be armed to the teeth.

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There are times when words seem empty and only actions seem great.

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Energy in a nation is like sap in a tree; it rises from bottom up.

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I am going to teach the South American republics to elect good men.

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The facts of the case will always have the better of [an] argument.

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The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

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Nothing was ever done so systematically as nothing is being done now.

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A right is worth fighting for only when it can be put into operation.

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Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.

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Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

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War isn't declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.

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Prosperity … is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

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That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.

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