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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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Once lead this people into war, and they'll forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance. To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fiber of our national life, infecting Congress, the courts, the policeman on the beat, the man in the street.
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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 rule for every man is, not to depend on the education which other men have prepared for him-not even to consent to it but to strive to see things as they are, and to be himself as he is. Defeat lies in self-surrender.
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If you think too much about being re-elected, it is very difficult to be worth re-electing.
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Never murder a man when he's busy committing suicide.
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My best training came from my father.
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This was not after all a conventional war, a struggle between equally predacious powers it was a war to end all wars.
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The great war that broke so suddenly upon the world two years ago, and which has swept up within its flame so great a part of thecivilized world, has affected us very profoundly.... With its causes and its objects we are not concerned. The obscure fountains from which its stupendous flood has burst we are not interested to search for or explore.
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It recognizes no morality but a sham morality meant for deceit, no honor even among thieves and of a thievish sort, no force but physical force, no intellectual power but cunning, no disgrace but failure, no crime but stupidity.
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Energy in a nation is like sap in a tree it rises from bottom up.
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We are expected to put the utmost energy, of every power that we have, into the service of our fellow men, never sparing ourselves, not condescending to think of what is going to happen to ourselves, but ready, if need be, to go to the utter length of self-sacrifice.
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Such a mind we must desire to see in a woman,--a mind that stirs without irritating you, that arouses but does not belabour, amuses and yet subtly instructs.
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Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.
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The commands of democracy are as imperative as its privileges and opportunities are wide and generous. Its compulsion is upon us.
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There is here a great melting pot in which we must compound a precious metal. That metal is the metal of nationality.
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There is something better, if possible, that a man can give than his life. That is his living spirit to a service that is not easy, to resist counsels that are hard to resist, to stand against purposes that are difficult to stand against.
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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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Statesmen have to bend to the collective will of their peoples or be broken.
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The Constitution was not made to fit us like a straitjacket. In its elasticity lies its chief greatness.
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When the representatives of Big Business think of the people, they do not include themselves.
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