Woodrow Wilson: I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately su...

The flag is a flag of liberty of opinion as well as of political liberty.

Woodrow Wilson

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

Woodrow Wilson

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It would be the irony of fate if my administration had to deal chiefly with foreign affairs.

Woodrow Wilson

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The Constitution was not made to fit us like a straitjacket. In its elasticity lies its chief greatness.

Woodrow Wilson

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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.

Woodrow Wilson

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We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study.

Woodrow Wilson

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

Woodrow Wilson

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A man is not as big as his belief in himself; he is as big as the number of persons who believe in him.

Woodrow Wilson

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There are blessed intervals when I forget by one means or another that I am President of the United States.

Woodrow Wilson

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No man can be just who is not free.

Woodrow Wilson

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A powerful Navy we have always regarded as our proper and natural means of defense; and it has always been of defense that we have thought, never of aggression or of conquest. But who shall tell us now what sort of Navy to build? We shall take leave to be strong upon the seas, in the future as in the past; and there will be no thought of offense or provocation in that. Our ships are our natural bulwarks.

Woodrow Wilson

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I have received delegations of working men who, apparently speaking with the utmost sincerity, have declared that they would regard it as a genuine hardship if they were deprived of their beer, for example.

Woodrow Wilson

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We never found a real model (for our vision).

Woodrow Wilson

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I am sorry for those that disagree with me because I know that they are wrong.

Woodrow Wilson

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...to make the world safe for democracy.

Woodrow Wilson

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Government is merely an attempt to express the conscience of everybody, the average conscience of the nation, in the rules that everybody is commanded to obey. That is all it is.

Woodrow Wilson

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...it would be a mistake...to ascribe to Roman legal conceptions an undivided sway over the development of law and institutions during the Middle Ages... The Laws of Moses as well as the laws of Rome contributed suggestions and impulse to the men and institutions which were to prepare the modern world; and if we could have but eyes to see... we should readily discover how very much besides religion we owe to the Jew.

Woodrow Wilson

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Have you thought of the sufferings of Armenia? You poured out your money to help succor the Armenians after they suffered; now set your strength so that they shall never suffer again.

Woodrow Wilson

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

Woodrow Wilson

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Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little. . . . We must strive for normalcy to reach stability.

Woodrow Wilson

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I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.