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We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.

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Woodrow Wilson
Age: 67 †
Born: 1856
Born: December 28
Died: 1924
Died: February 23
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No thoughtful man ever came to the end of his life, and had time and a little space of calm from which to look back upon it, who did not know and acknowledge that it was what he had done unselfishly and for others, and nothing else, that satisfied him in the retrospect, and made him feel that he had played the man.
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A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.
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Our object now, as then, is to vindicate the principles of peace and justice in the life of the world as against selfish and autocratic power, and to set up among the really free and self-governed peoples of the world such a concert of purpose and of action as will henceforth insure the observance of those principles.
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I believe very profoundly in an over-ruling Providence, and I do not fear that any real plans can be thrown off the track. It maynot be intended that I shall be President--but that would not break my heart.
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Every people has a right to choose the sovereignty under which they shall live.
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I have had the accomplishment of something like this at heart ever since I was a boy.... So I feel tonight like the man who is lodging happily in the inn which lies half way along the journey and that in time, with a fresh impulse, we shall go the rest of the journey and sleep at the journey's end like men with a quiet conscience.
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I have sometimes heard men say politics must have nothing to do with business, and I have often wished that business had nothing to do with politics.
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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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To conquer with arms is to make only a temporary conquest to conquer the world by earning its esteem is to make a permanent conquest.
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A presidential campaign may easily degenerate into a mere personal contest, and so lose its real dignity. There is no indispensable man.
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The great war that broke so suddenly upon the world two years ago, and which has swept up within its flame so great a part of thecivilized world, has affected us very profoundly.... With its causes and its objects we are not concerned. The obscure fountains from which its stupendous flood has burst we are not interested to search for or explore.
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Tell me what is right and I will fight for it.
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The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.
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This little world, this little state, this little commonwealth of our own.
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If the colored people made a mistake in voting for me, they ought to correct it.
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In the last analysis, my fellow country men, as we in America would be the first to claim, a people are responsible for the acts of their government.
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There is no more subtle dissolvent of morals than sentimentality.
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