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Honor
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The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-Woodrow Wilson
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There is no question what the roll of honor in America is. The roll of honor consists of the names of men who have squared their conduct by ideals of duty.
-Woodrow Wilson
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Individuality
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America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.
-Woodrow Wilson
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Judging, Judgment
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One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
-Woodrow Wilson
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Leadership
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No man has ever risen to the real stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.
-Woodrow Wilson
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Learning
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No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know.
-Woodrow Wilson
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Liberty
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Liberty never came from government. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.
-Woodrow Wilson, Speech in New York, September 9, 1912
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I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.
-Woodrow Wilson
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Love
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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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Loyalty
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Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
-Woodrow Wilson
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Military, the
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When they the American soldiers came, they found fit comrades for their courage and their devotion.... Joining hands with them, the men of America gave the greatest of all gifts - the gift of life and the gift of spirit.
-Woodrow Wilson, Speaking in the cemetery at Suresnes, outside Paris, amid the graves of American soldiers most of whom had died in the advance on Chateau Thierry - Memorial Day, 1919.
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Minorities
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You cannot become thorough Americans if you think of yourselves in groups. America does not consist of groups. A man who thinks of himself as belonging to a particular national group in America has not yet become an American.
-Woodrow Wilson
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Patience
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All things come to him who waits -- provided he knows what he is waiting for.
-Woodrow Wilson
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Patriotism
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The things that the flag stands for were created by the experiences of a great people. Everything that it stands for was written by their lives. The flag is the embodiment not of sentiment, but of history.
-Woodrow Wilson
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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.
-Woodrow Wilson
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They imply, first of all, that it must be a peace without victory. It is not pleasant to say this. I beg that I may be permitted to put my own interpretation upon it and that it may be understood that no other interpretation was in my thought. I am seeking only to face realities and to face them without soft concealments. Victory would mean peace forced upon the loser, a victor's terms imposed upon the vanquished. It would be accepted in humiliation, under duress, at an intolerable sacrifice, and would leave a sting, a resentment, a bitter memory upon which terms of peace would rest, not permanently, but only as upon quicksand. Only a peace between equals can last, only a peace the very principle of which is equality and a common participation in a common benefit. The right state of mind, the right feeling between nations, is as necessary for a lasting peace as is the just settlement of vexed questions of territory or of racial and national allegiance.
-Woodrow Wilson, Address of the President of the United States to the Senate, January 22, 1917
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Politics
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Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.
-Woodrow Wilson
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The success of a party means little more than that the Nation is using the party for a large and definite purpose. It seeks to use and interpret a change in its own plans and point of view.
-Woodrow Wilson
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Power
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There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.
-Woodrow Wilson
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Procrastination
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Nothing was ever done so systematically as nothing is being done now.
-Woodrow Wilson
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Today's greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow.
-Woodrow Wilson
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Progress
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A radical is one of whom people say He goes too far. A conservative, on the other hand, is one who doesn't go far enough. Then there is the reactionary, one who doesn't go at all. All these terms are more or less objectionable, wherefore we have
-Woodrow Wilson
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Prophecy
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No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.
-Woodrow Wilson
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Protest
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Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the Field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere -- so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive -- that they better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.
-Woodrow Wilson, The New Freedom, 1913
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Questions
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We should not only master questions,but also act upon them,and act definitely.
-Woodrow Wilson
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