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The sum of the whole matter is this - our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually.
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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People will endure their tyrants for years, but they tear their deliverers to pieces if a millennium is not created immediately.
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I have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty, and business liberty, and every other kind of liberty, in the phrase that is common in the sporting world, 'A free field and no favor.'
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The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort.
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The history of liberty is the history of limitations on the power of government, not the increase of it. When we resist, therefore, the concentration of power, we are resisting the processes of death, because concentration of power is what always precedes the destruction of human liberties.
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If you would be a leader of men, you must lead your own generation, not the next.
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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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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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And while you bring all countries with you, you come with a purpose of leaving all other countries behind you - bringing what is best of their spirit, but not looking over your shoulders and seeking to perpetuate what you intended to leave behind in them.
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I have come slowly into possession of such powers as I have. I receive the opinions of my day. I do not conceive them. But I receive them into a vivid mind.
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I'm a vague, conjunctured personality, more made up of opinions and academic prepossessions than of human traits and red corpuscles.
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If I cannot retain my moral influence over a man except by occasionally knocking him down, if that is the only basis upon which he will respect me, then for the sake of his soul I have got occasionally to knock him down.
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Interest does not tie nations together it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.
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