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One cool judgement is worth a thousand hasty councils.

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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Government, in it's last analysis, is organized force.
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Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.
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The westward march has stopped, upon the final plains of the Pacific and now the plot thickenswith the change, the pause, the settlement, our people draw into closer groups, stand face to face, to know each other and be known.
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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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I am the friend of peace and mean to preserve it for America so long as I am able. . . . No course of my choosing or of their (nations at war) will lead to war. War can come only by the wilful acts and aggressions of others.
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High society is for those who have stopped working and no longer have anything important to do.
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There are times when words seem empty and only actions seem great. Such a time has come, and in the Providence of God America will once more have an opportunity to show the world that she was born to save mankind.
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They lived long that have lived well.
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Any man that resists the present tides that run in the world, will find himself thrown upon a shore so high and barren that it will seem he has been separated from his human kind forever.
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If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation if an hour, I am ready now.
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Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
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I am one who fights without a knack of hoping confidentlysimply a Scotch-Irishman who will not be conquered.
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