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I have received delegations of working men who, apparently speaking with the utmost sincerity, have declared that they would regard it as a genuine hardship if they were deprived of their beer, for example.
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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Never murder a man when he's busy committing suicide.
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The way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.
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I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool, the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.
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I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being.
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All things come to him who waits - provided he knows what he is waiting for.
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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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America was born a Christian nation.
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The only thing that saves the world is the little handful of disinterested men that are in it.
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No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acquiescence.
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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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I believe that soldiers will bear me out in saying that both come in time of battle. I take it that the moral courage comes in going into the battle, and the physical courage in staying in.
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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.
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We cannot be separated in interest or divided in purpose. We stand together until the end.
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Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
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America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses.
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If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. Character is a by-product, and any man who devotes himself to its cultivation in his own case will become a selfish prig.
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