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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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I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country.
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I want to re-echo my hope that we may all work together for a great peace as distinguished from a mean peace.
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Death, like the quintessence of otherness, is for others.
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I have no happy fairyland vision that she can win.
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The welfare, the happiness, the energy and spirit of the men and women who do the daily workis the underlying necessity of all prosperity.... There can be nothing wholesome unless their life is wholesome there can be no contentment unless they are contented.
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If I cannot retain my moral influence over a man except by occasionally knocking him down, if that is the only basis upon which he will respect me, then for the sake of his soul I have got occasionally to knock him down.
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That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
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Thought cannot conceive of anything that may not be brought to expression. He who first uttered it may be only the suggester, but the doer will appear.
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Government, in it's last analysis, is organized force.
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They [the children] live in a world of delightful imagination they pursue persons and objects that never existed they make an Argosy laden with gold out of a floating butterfly,--and these stupid [grown-up people] try to translate these things into uninteresting facts.
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It is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shouting at you.
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The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
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There are blessed intervals when I forget by one means or another that I am President of the United States.
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If you wish your children to be Christians you must really take the trouble to be Christian yourselves. Those are the only terms upon which the home will work the gracious miracle.
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The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.
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We are provincials no longer. The tragic events of the 30 months of vital turmoil through which we have just passed have made us citizens of the world. There can be no turning back.
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There is here a great melting pot in which we must compound a precious metal. That metal is the metal of nationality.
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The white men were roused by a mere instinct of self-preservation—until at last there had sprung into existence a great Ku Klux Klan, a veritable empire of the South, to protect the Southern country.
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When the representatives of Big Business think of the people, they do not include themselves.
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If you would be a leader of men you must lead your own generation, not the next. Your playing must be good now, while the play ison the boards and the audience in the seats.... It will not get you the repute of a good actor to have excellencies discovered in you afterwards.
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