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The world must be made safe for democracy.

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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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A man's rootage is more important than his leafage.
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Statesmen have to bend to the collective will of their peoples or be broken.
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Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.
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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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