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Some people have a large circle of friends while others have only friends that they like.
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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A man is not as big as his belief in himself he is as big as the number of persons who believe in him.
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The history of liberty is a history of resistance.
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It recognizes no morality but a sham morality meant for deceit, no honor even among thieves and of a thievish sort, no force but physical force, no intellectual power but cunning, no disgrace but failure, no crime but stupidity.
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No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know
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Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.
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I have no happy fairyland vision that she can win.
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America is not a mere body of traders it is a body of free men. Our greatness is built upon our freedom - is moral, not material. We have a great ardor for gain but we have a deep passion for the rights of man.
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The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them.
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The method of political science is the interpretation of life its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions.
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The allied nations with the fullest concurrence of our government and people are agreed that in Palestine shall be laid the foundations of a Jewish Commonwealth.
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The literary gift is a very dangerous gift to possess if you are not telling the truth, and I would a great deal rather, for my part, have a man stumble in his speech than to feel he was so exceedingly smooth that he had better be watched both day and night.
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A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.
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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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Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
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My own ideals for the university are those of a genuine democracy and serious scholarship. These two, indeed, seem to go together.
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Open covenants of peace, openly arrived at.
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Has justice ever grown in the soil of absolute power? Has not justice always come from the ... heart and spirit of men who resist power?
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The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
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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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Every country is renewed out of the unknown ranks and not out of the ranks of those already famous and powerful and in control.
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