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28th U S President Inspirational Quotes (425)

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I have come slowly into possession of such powers as I have. I receive the opinions of my day. I do not conceive them. But I receive them into a vivid mind.
Woodrow Wilson
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Generally young men are regarded as radicals. This is a popular misconception. The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life.
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It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.
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As compared with the college politician, the real article seems like an amateur.
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Neutrality is a negative word. It is a word that does not express what America ought to feel. America has a heart, and that heart throbs with all sorts of intense sympathies... We are not trying to keep out of trouble we are trying to preserve the foundations upon which peace can be rebuilt.
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The world is not looking for servants, there are plenty of these, but for masters, men who form their purposes and then carry them out, let the consequences be what they may.
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War isn’t declared in the name of God it is a human affair entirely.
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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.
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Only free peoples can hold their purpose and their honor steady to a common end, and prefer the interests of mankind to any narrow interest of their own.
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Property as compared with humanity, as compared with the red blood in the American people, must take second place, not first place.
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There is no cause half so sacred as the cause of the people. There is no idea so uplifting as the idea of the service of humanity.
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No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.
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Interest does not tie nations together it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.
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If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it.
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I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.
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That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
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Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
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All things come to him who waits - provided he knows what he is waiting for.
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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.
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When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.
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The things that the flag stands for were created by the experiences of a great people. Everything that it stands for was written by their lives. The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.
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The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.
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All the extraordinary men I have ever known were chiefly extraordinary in their own estimation.
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The seed of revolution is repression.
Woodrow Wilson
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