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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.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Encouraging, 4th Of July, Men

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1988). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• A man's rootage is more important than his leafage.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Men, Important

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• America is the place where you cannot kill your government by killing the men who conduct it.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Men, America, Killing

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link (1990). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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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.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Government, Hands, Principles

  Woodrow Wilson, Mario R. DiNunzio (2006). “Woodrow Wilson: Essential Writings and Speeches of the Scholar-president”, p.394, NYU Press

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• The example of America must be the example not merely of peace because it will not fight, but of peace because peace is the healing and elevating influence of the world, and strife is not. There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight. There is such a thing as a nation being so right that it does not need to convince others by force that it is right.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Peace, Healing, Fighting

  Speech in Philadelphia, 10 May 1915, in 'Selected Addresses' (1918) p. 88

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• This book [the Bible] speaks both the voice of God and the voice of humanity, for there is told in it the most convincing of human experience that has ever been written...and those who heed that story will know their strength and happiness and success are all summed up in the exhortation, "Fear God and keep His commandments."

  Woodrow Wilson

  Book, Voice, Humanity

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• Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Loyalty, Heart, Mean

  Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.142, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• Let it be your pride to show all men everywhere not only what good soldiers you are, but also what good men you are.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Military, Pride, Men

  Woodrow Wilson (1918). “State Papers and Addresses”

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• You have just taken an oath of allegiance to the United States. Of allegiance to whom? Of allegiance to no one, unless it be God. Certainly not of allegiance to those who temporarily represent this great government. You have taken an oath of allegiance to a great ideal, to a great body of principles, to a great hope of the human race.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Taken, Race, Government

  Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.86, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• No government has ever been beneficent when the attitude of government was that it was taking care of the people. The only freedom consists in the people taking care of the government.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Attitude, Government, People

  Woodrow Wilson (1956). “A crossroads of freedom, the 1912 campaign speeches”

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• The history of liberty is a history of resistance.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Liberty, Resistance, Political Freedom

  Speech to New York Press Club in New York, 9 Sept. 1912, in Papers of Woodrow Wilson (1978) vol. 25, p. 124

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• The roll of honor consists of the names of meant who have squared their conduct by ideals of duty.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Military, Names, Honor

  Woodrow Wilson (1916). “Wit and Wisdom of Woodrow Wilson: Extracts from the Public Speeches of the Leader and Interpreter of American Democracy, with Masterpieces of Eloquence”, Best Books

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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.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Business, Democracy, Corporations

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1978). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Inspirational, Life, Hope

  Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.87, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• Segregation is not humiliating but a benefit...

  Woodrow Wilson

  Benefits, Segregation, Humiliating

  Defending the re-segregation of federal offices, in Conference with members of the National Association for Equal Rights, November 1914.

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• We cannot be separated in interest or divided in purpose. We stand together until the end.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Inspirational, Unity, Together

  The Fourteen Points, delivered 8 January 1918

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• There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Leadership, Sports, Spiritual

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• I can imagine no greater disservice to the country than to establish a system of censorship that would deny to the people of a free republic like our own their indisputable right to criticize their own public officials. While exercising the great powers of the office I hold, I would regret in a crisis like the one through which we are now passing to lose the benefit of patriotic and intelligent criticism.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Country, Regret, Patriotic

  Woodrow Wilson (1983). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• In fundamental theory socialism and democracy are almost if not quite one and the same. They both rest at bottom upon the absolute right of the community to determine its own destiny and that of its members. Men as communities are supreme over men as individuals. Limits of wisdom and convenience to the public control there may be: limits of principle there are, upon strict analysis, none.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Destiny, Men, Rights

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1968). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• The right is more precious than peace.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Military, Small Nations

  Address to Joint Session of Congress asking for declaration of war, 2 Apr. 1917

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• I have the feeling that he would rather see a good cause fail than succeed if he were not the head of it.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Feelings, Succeed, Causes

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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.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Country, Long, Development

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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.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Inspiring, Dog, Silly

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• A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what we have been about.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Yesterday, Trying, Doe

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• We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Nwo, Free Opinion, World Government

  Woodrow Wilson (2016). “The New Freedom: [Illustrated & Biography Added]”, p.129, eKitap Projesi

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