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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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Woodrow Wilson
Age: 67 †
Born: 1856
Born: December 28
Died: 1924
Died: February 23
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I am not one of those who have the least anxiety about the triumph of the principles I have stood for. I have seen fools resist Providence before, and I have seen their destruction, as will come upon these again, utter destruction and contempt. That we shall prevail is as sure as that God reigns.
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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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I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.
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I'm a vague, conjunctured personality, more made up of opinions and academic prepossessions than of human traits and red corpuscles.
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We are expected to put the utmost energy, of every power that we have, into the service of our fellow men, never sparing ourselves, not condescending to think of what is going to happen to ourselves, but ready, if need be, to go to the utter length of self-sacrifice.
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