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• By 'radical,' I understand one who goes too far; by 'conservative,' one who does not go far enough; by 'reactionary,' one who won't go at all.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Political, Doe, Radicalism

  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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• There has been something crude and heartless and unfeeling in our haste to suceed and be great. Our thought has been 'Let every man look out for himself, let every generation look out for itself,' while we reared giant machinery which made it impossible that any but those who stood at the levers of control should have a chance to look out for themselves.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Success, Men, Should Have

  First Inaugural Address, delivered 4 April 1913

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• Death comes along like a gas bill one can't payand that's all one can sayabout it.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Bills, Gas

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• There are times when words seem empty and only actions seem great. Such a time has come, and in the Providence of God America will once more have an opportunity to show the world that she was born to save mankind.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Opportunity, America, World

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• We didn't have another choice but to do what we did, if we wanted to be accepted, because we weren't counted as human beings.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Choices, Accepted, Wanted

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• Liberty cannot live apart from constitutional

  Woodrow Wilson

  President, Liberty

  Woodrow Wilson, Ronald J. Pestritto (2005). “Woodrow Wilson: The Essential Political Writings”, p.241, Lexington Books

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• While we are fighting for freedom, we must see, among other things, that labor is free.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Fighting, Presidential, Fighting For Freedom

  Woodrow Wilson (2012). “President Wilson's Addresses”, p.306, tredition

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• It is not men that interest or disturb me primarily; it is ideas. Ideas live; men die.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Men, Ideas, Interest

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• The only place in the world that nothing has to be explained to me is the South.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Southern, World, Places In The World

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• I can predict with absolute certainty that within another generation there will be another world war if the nations of the world do not concert the method by which to prevent it.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Change, War, Generations

  Woodrow Wilson (1919). “Addresses of President Wilson”

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• It must be a peace without victory

  Woodrow Wilson

  Victory

  Address to Senate on essential terms of peace in Europe, 22 Jan. 1917

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• It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Regret, Writing, Writing History

  Attributed in Scribner's Magazine, Nov. 1937. This is the earliest documented evidence for this quotation, and it appears unlikely to be authentic. Marjorie Brown King, the last survivor among the people at the 1915 screening, said that Wilson walked out of the room afterwards without comment. However, at least the first part of the quotation may have been associated with Wilson as early as February 1915. According to a 2004 article by Arthur Lennig, the New York American, 28 Feb. 1915, quoted B

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• The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous, event of our generation.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Government, Our Generation, People

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

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• There is no cause half so sacred as the cause of the people. There is no idea so uplifting as the idea of the service of humanity.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Trust, Uplifting, Ideas

  Woodrow Wilson (1956). “A Crossroads of Freedom: The 1912 Campaign Speeches”

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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.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Memorial Day, Spring, Inspiration

  Woodrow Wilson (2012). “President Wilson's Addresses”, p.96, tredition

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

  Woodrow Wilson

  Freedom, Fighting, Liberty

  Woodrow Wilson, Howard Seavoy Leach (1925). “The Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson: College and state, educational, literary and political papers (1875-1913)”

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• No man can be just who is not free.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Men, Justice

  Woodrow Wilson, Ollie M. James (1912). “Speech of Governor Wilson Accepting the Democratic Nomination for President of the United States: Together with the Speech of Notification Delivered by Hon. Ollie M. James at Seagirt, N.J., August 7, 1912”

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• We can afford to exercise the self-restraint of a really great nation which realizes its own strength and scorns to misuse it.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Exercise, Self, Realizing

  Woodrow Wilson, Mario R. DiNunzio (2006). “Woodrow Wilson: Essential Writings and Speeches of the Scholar-president”, p.385, NYU Press

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• The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Military, Honor, Comfort

  Woodrow Wilson, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1981). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• The commands of democracy are as imperative as its privileges and opportunities are wide and generous. Its compulsion is upon us.

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  Responsibility, Opportunity, Democracy

  Woodrow Wilson (2012). “President Wilson's Addresses”, p.239, tredition

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• We are in the presence of a new organization of society. Our life has broken away from the past.

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  Past, Organization, Broken

  Woodrow Wilson, Ronald J. Pestritto (2005). “Woodrow Wilson: The Essential Political Writings”, p.107, Lexington Books

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• Politics is a war of causes; a joust of principles.

  Woodrow Wilson

  War, Presidential, Principles

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1966). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• The treasury of America lies in those ambitions, those energies, that cannot be restricted to a special favored class. It depends upon the inventions of unknown men, upon the originations of unknown men, upon the ambitions of unknown men. Every country is renewed out of the ranks of the unknown, not out of the ranks of those already famous and powerful and in control.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Country, Powerful, Lying

  Woodrow Wilson, Ronald J. Pestritto (2005). “Woodrow Wilson: The Essential Political Writings”, p.112, Lexington Books

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• I do not want to live under a philanthropy. I do not want to be taken care of by the government.... We do not want a benevolent government. We want a free and a just government.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Taken, Government, Care

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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.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Strong, Equality, Safety

  Woodrow Wilson, Edwin Anderson Alderman (1928). “Woodrow Wilson's Principles of Democracy: Being President Alderman's Memorial Address Delivered Before a Joint Session of American Congress, and President Woodrow Wilson's Addresses Delivered During the Period of the Great World War”

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