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Woodrow Wilson, fully Thomas Woodrow Wilson
Our object now, as then, is to vindicate the principles of peace and justice in the life of the world as against selfish and autocratic power, and to set up among the really free and self governed peoples of the world such a concert of purpose and of action as will henceforth insure the observance of those principles.
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Woodrow Wilson, fully Thomas Woodrow Wilson
Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.
Action | Justice | Life | Life | Object | Peace | Principles | Purpose | Purpose | Self | Will | World |
Woodrow Wilson, fully Thomas Woodrow Wilson
It is easier to change the location of a cemetery, than to change the school curriculum.
Authority | Civilization | Nations | Peace | People | Right | Rights | World |
Woodrow Wilson, fully Thomas Woodrow Wilson
No man ever saw a government. I live in the midst of the Government of the United States, but I never saw the Government of the United States.
Woodrow Wilson, fully Thomas Woodrow Wilson
Only free people can hold their purpose and their honor steady to a common end, and prefer the interest of mankind to any narrow interest of their own.
Woodrow Wilson, fully Thomas Woodrow Wilson
Never attempt to murder a man who is committing suicide.
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Tom Hayden, fully Thomas Emmet "Tom" Hayden
Imagine a nineteenth-century Jane Fonda visiting the Oglala Sioux in the Black Hills before the battle at Little Big Horn. Imagine her examining Crazy Horse's arrows or climbing upon Sitting Bull's horse. Such behavior by a well-known actress no doubt would have infuriated Gen. George Armstrong Custer, but what would the rest of us feel today
Tom Hayden, fully Thomas Emmet "Tom" Hayden
There is a power to the street that's part of the democratic process when all else has failed,
Tom Hayden, fully Thomas Emmet "Tom" Hayden
The politicians of New York have everything that is necessary to make proper decisions and they will have to live with what happens afterwards. The worst scenario is the politicians covering their eyes and turning it over to the FBI.
Tom Robbins, fully Thomas Eugene "Tom" Robbins
A sense of humor, properly developed, is superior to any religion so far devised.
All, with one consent, praise new-born gawds, though they are made and moulded of things past; and give to dust, that is a little gilt, more laud than gilt o’erdusted. Henry V, Act iv, Scene 3
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But, alas, to make me a fixèd figure for the time of scorn to point his slow unmoving finger at! Othello, Act iv, Scene 2