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I have no happy fairyland vision that she can win.
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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Generally young men are regarded as radicals. This is a popular misconception. The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life.
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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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Music says nothing to the reason: it is a kind of closely structured nonsense.
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If you think too much about being re-elected, it is very difficult to be worth re-electing.
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This was not after all a conventional war, a struggle between equally predacious powers it was a war to end all wars.
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The seed of revolution is repression.
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Be militant! Be an organization that is going to do things! If you can find older men who will give you countenance and acceptableleadership, follow them but if you cannot, organize separately and dispense with them. There are only two sorts of men to be associated with when something is to be done: Those are young men and men who never grow old.
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I am not sure that it is of the first importance that you should be happy. Many an unhappy man has been of deep service to himself and to the world.
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That is Gladstone, the greatest statesman that ever lived. I intend to be a statesman, too.
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Progressiveness means not standing still when everything else is moving.
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I firmly believe in Divine Providence. Without belief in Providence I think I should go crazy. Without God the world would be a maze without a clue.
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Congress in session is Congress on public exhibition, whilst Congress in its committee-rooms is Congress at work.
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The princes among us are those who forget themselves and serve others.
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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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Some of the greatest and most lasting effects of genuine oratory have gone forth from secluded lecture desks into the hearts of quiet groups of students.
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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 cure for bad politics is the same as the cure for tuberculosis. It is living in the open.
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You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand
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Whate'er my doom It cannot be unhappy: God hath given me The boon of resignation.
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