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A right is worth fighting for only when it can be put into operation.
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 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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One of the proofs of the divinity of our gospel is the preaching it has survived.
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Every one at the bottom of his heart cherishes vanity even the toad thinks himself good-looking,--rather tawny perhaps, but look at his eye!
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Some Americans need hyphens in their names because only part of them has come over.
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I do not want to live under a philanthropy. I do not want to be taken care of by the government.... We do not want a benevolent government. We want a free and a just government.
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They [the children] live in a world of delightful imagination they pursue persons and objects that never existed they make an Argosy laden with gold out of a floating butterfly,--and these stupid [grown-up people] try to translate these things into uninteresting facts.
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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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The trouble with the theory [of limited and divided government] is that government is not a machine, but a living thing. This is where the living and breathing constitution comes from. It is modified by its environment, necessitated by its tasks, shaped to its functions by the sheer pressure of life.
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We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study.
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The roll of honor consists of the names of meant who have squared their conduct by ideals of duty.
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America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness which are derived from the revelations of the Holy Scripture.
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As a matter of fact and experience, the more power is divided the more irresponsible it becomes.
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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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