There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and

There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.

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.

A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.

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.