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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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Woodrow Wilson
Age: 67 †
Born: 1856
Born: December 28
Died: 1924
Died: February 23
28Th U.S. President
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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.
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Washington has seldom seen so numerous, so industrious or so insidious a lobby. There is every evidence that money without limit is being spent to sustain this lobby.... I know that in this I am speaking for the members of the two houses, who would rejoice as much as I would to be released from this unbearable situation.
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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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Energy in a nation is like sap in a tree it rises from bottom up.
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There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
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Every great man of business has got somewhere a touch of the idealist in him.
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When correcting a child, the goal is to apply light, not heat.
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No government has ever been beneficent when the attitude of government was that it was taking care of the people. The only freedom consists in the people taking care of the government.
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It is the object of learning, not only to satisfy the curiosity and perfect the spirits of ordinary men, but also to advance civilization.
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You have just taken an oath of allegiance to the United States. Of allegiance to whom? Of allegiance to no one, unless it be God. Certainly not of allegiance to those who temporarily represent this great government. You have taken an oath of allegiance to a great ideal, to a great body of principles, to a great hope of the human race.
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If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. Character is a by-product, and any man who devotes himself to its cultivation in his own case will become a selfish prig.
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The truth is we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless.
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The law that will work is merely the summing up in legislative form of the moral judgment that the community has already reached.
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Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.
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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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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 right is worth fighting for only when it can be put into operation.
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No nation is fit to sit in judgement upon any other nation.
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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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