"Interest does not tie nations together; it..." - Quote by Woodrow Wilson
Interest does not tie nations together; it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.
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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.”
“At last a vision has been vouchsafed to us of our life as a whole. We see the bad with the good.... With this vision we approach new affairs. Our duty is to cleanse, to reconsider, to restore, to correct the evil without impairing the good, to purify and humanize every process of our common life, without weakening or sentimentalizing it.”
“It must be a peace without victory”
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“The dreamer and his dream are the same...the powers personified in a dream are these that move the world.”
“We created a whole lot of millionaires to boot. Businesses did just fine. And you know there are plenty of patriotic, successful Americans all across the country -- I meet them every day -- who'd be willing to make this contribution again because they understand there is such a thing as the common good. They understand that we're in this thing together.”
“The Swaraj of my dream recognizes no race or religious distinctions.”
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“There is no reason to believe that there is one law for families and another for nations.”
“Happy are all free peoples, too strong to be dispossessed. But blessed are those among nations who dare to be strong for the rest!”
“They are nations of eternal war. All their energies are expended in the destruction of the labor, property, and lives of their people.”