Woodrow Wilson

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• Peace is its own reward.

  Often credited to Mahatma Gandhi

  • War & Peace

• The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it.

  Speech at New York Press Club (9 September 1912), in The papers of Woodrow Wilson, 25:124

  • Government
  • Liberty

• Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of liberty is a history of resistance.

  Speech at New York Press Club (9 September 1912), in The papers of Woodrow Wilson, 25:124

  • Liberty

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• I came, I saw, I conquered.

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• The unexamined life is not worth living.

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