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Woodrow Wilson
Age: 67 †
Born: 1856
Born: December 28
Died: 1924
Died: February 23
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Washington has seldom seen so numerous, so industrious or so insidious a lobby. There is every evidence that money without limit is being spent to sustain this lobby.... I know that in this I am speaking for the members of the two houses, who would rejoice as much as I would to be released from this unbearable situation.
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It's harder for a leader to be born in a palace than to be born in a cabin.
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The highest and best form of efficiency is the spontaneous cooperation of a free people.
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The man who disparages music as a luxury and non-essential is doing the nation an injury. Music now, more than ever before, is a national need.
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The world is not looking for servants, there are plenty of these, but for masters, men who form their purposes and then carry them out, let the consequences be what they may.
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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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No peace can last, or ought to last, which does not recognize and accept the principle that governments derive all their just powers from the consent of the governed, and that no right anywhere exists to hand peoples from sovereignty to sovereignty as if they were property.
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If Freud had worn a kilt in the prescribed Highland manner he might have had a very different attitude to genitals.
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Let it be your pride to show all men everywhere not only what good soldiers you are, but also what good men you are.
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If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.
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That is Gladstone, the greatest statesman that ever lived. I intend to be a statesman, too.
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We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.
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We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.
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Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
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...I do not want a government that will take care of me, I want a government that will make other men take their hands off me so I can take care of myself.
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To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fibre of national life.
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There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.
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The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.
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There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
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