It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.

Author: Woodrow Wilson

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Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.

America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.

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

Property, as compared with humanity, as compared with the red blood in the American people, must take second place, not first place.

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

The great courageous act that we must all do, is to have the courage to step out of our history and past, so that we can live our dreams.

Perhaps the history of the errors of mankind, all things considered, is more valuable and interesting than that of their discoveries.

Truly great people in history never wanted to be great for themselves. All they wanted was the chance to do good for others and be close to God.