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Freedom Quotes by Woodrow Wilson

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Woodrow Wilson argues that liberty means limiting government power, not expanding it. He believes real freedom appears when people turn ideas about rights into concrete actions. He also notes that a nation stays free only when its citizens care for the government and keep it honest.

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No man can be just who is not free.

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The history of liberty is a history of resistance.

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Liberty cannot live apart from constitutional

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Liberty is its own reward.

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

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The highest and best form of efficiency is the spontaneous cooperation of a free people.

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

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

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

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

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I believe in human liberty as I believe in the wine of life. There is no salvation for men in the pitiful…

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Only free peoples can hold their purpose and their honor steady to a common end, and prefer the interests of mankind to…

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You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it.

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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…

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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…

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Sciencehas won for us a great liberty in the physical world, a liberty from superstitious fear and from disease, a freedom touse…

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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…

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The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.

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When I think of the flag… I see alternate strips of parchment upon which are written the rights of liberty and justice,…

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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…

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America is not a mere body of traders; it is a body of free men. Our greatness is built upon our freedom…

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The history of liberty is the history of limitations on the power of government, not the increase of it. When we resist,…

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Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of government is…

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The flag of the United States has not been created by rhetorical sentences in declarations of independence and in bills of rights.…

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There is one thing that the American people always rise to and extend their hand to and that is the truth of…

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Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of liberty is…

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A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is privately concentrated. The growth of the…

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But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our…

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“The President is at liberty, both in law and conscience, to be as big a man as he can. His capacity will…

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Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another, it is for the sovereignty…

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An evident principle ... is the principle of justice to all peoples and nationalities, andtheir right to live on equal terms of…

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The world can be at peace only if the world is stable, and there can be no stability where the will is…

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There will be no greater burden on our generation than to organize the forces of liberty in our time in order to…

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America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal - to discover and maintain liberty…

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I have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty, and business liberty, and every other kind of liberty, in the…

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To be free is not necessarily to be wise. Wisdom comes with counsel, with the frank and free conference of untrammeled men…

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Liberty does not consist in mere declarations of the rights of man. It consists in the translation of those declarations into definite…

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Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history…

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[We are] no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but…

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Our object now, as then, is to vindicate the principles of peace and justice in the life of the world as against…

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If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if fifteen minutes, three days; if half an hour, two days;…

There is here a great melting pot in which we must compound a precious metal. That metal is the metal of nationality.

One cannot pay the price of self-respect.

I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.

I have received delegations of working men who, apparently speaking with the utmost sincerity, have declared that they would regard it as a genuine…

Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.

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

...We are intensely proud of their noble record and are glad to have had the whole world see how irresistible they are in their…

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

The greatest embarrassment of my political career has been that active duties seem to deprive me of time for careful investigation. I seem almost…

Some Americans need hyphens in their names because only part of them has come over.

The history of liberty is the history of limitations on the power of government, not the increase of it. When we resist, therefore, the…

When I think of the flag… I see alternate strips of parchment upon which are written the rights of liberty and justice, and stripes…

If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if an hour, I am ready now.

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