But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts - Woodrow Wilson
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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 hearts
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Woodrow Wilson
Thomas Woodrow Wilson (28 December 1856 – 3 February 1924) was the 28th president of the United States of America (1913–1921) and the 45th governor of New Jersey (1911–1913). He was the second Democrat to serve two consecutive terms in the White House, after Andrew Jackson, and was the first President from the South to be elected since the American Civil War
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Thomas Woodrow Wilson
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T. Woodrow Wilson
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Thomas W. Wilson
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President Wilson
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T. W. Wilson
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T. Wilson
America is the place where you can not kill your Government by killing the men who conduct it. The only way you can kill government in America is by making the men and women of America forget how to govern, and nobody can do that. They sometimes find the team a little difficult to drive, but they sooner or later whip it into harness.
America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses.
I can imagine no greater disservice to the country than to establish a system of censorship that would deny to the people of a free republic like our own their indisputable right to criticise their own public officials. While exercising the great powers of the office I hold, I would regret in a crisis like the one through which we are now passing to lose the benefit of patriotic and intelligent criticism.
