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A fault which humbles a person is of more use to him or her than a good action which puffs him or her up.
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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The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.
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And when they [American soldiers] came, they found fit comrades for their courage and their devotion. ... Joining hands with these, the men of America gave that greatest of all gifts, the gift of life and the gift of spirit.
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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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If you would be a leader of men you must lead your own generation, not the next. Your playing must be good now, while the play ison the boards and the audience in the seats.... It will not get you the repute of a good actor to have excellencies discovered in you afterwards.
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That is Gladstone, the greatest statesman that ever lived. I intend to be a statesman, too.
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It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilizationitself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things we have always carried closest to our hearts.
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There are blessed intervals when I forget by one means or another that I am President of the United States.
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I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.
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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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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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I used to be a lawyer, but now I am a reformed character.
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