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You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape.
Woodrow Wilson
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Woodrow Wilson
Age: 67 †
Born: 1856
Born: December 28
Died: 1924
Died: February 23
28Th U.S. President
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There is one thing that the American people always rise to and extend their hand to and that is the truth of justice, and of liberty, and of peace. We have accepted that truth and we are going to led by itand through us the world, out into pastures of quietness and peace such as the world never dreamed of before.
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Our civilization cannot survive materially unless it is redeemed spiritually. It can be saved only by becoming permeated with the Spirit of Christ, and being made free and happy by practices which spring out of that spirit. Only thus can discontent be driven out and all shadows lifted from the road ahead.
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If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
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You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it.
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Justice, and only justice, shall always be our motto.
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Open covenants of peace, openly arrived at.
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I am sorry for men who do not read the Bible every day. I wonder why they deprive themselves of the strength and pleasure.
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I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country.
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There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.
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The commands of democracy are as imperative as its privileges and opportunities are wide and generous. Its compulsion is upon us.
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The way to be patriotic in America is not only to love America, but to love the duty that lies nearest to our hand, and to know that in performing it we are serving our country.
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The growth of our nation and all its activities are in the hands of a few men.
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At every crisis in one's life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving.
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A nation is as great, and only as great, as her rank and file.
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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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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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One cool judgement is worth a thousand hasty councils.
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What is the use of voting? We know that the machines of both parties are subsidized by the same persons, and therefore it is useless to turn in either direction.
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My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business, that it is something we owe to each other to understand and discuss with absolute frankness.
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Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the sovereignty of self-governing people.
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