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Your enlightenment depends on the company you keep. You do not know the world until you know the men who have possessed it and tried its wares before you were ever given your brief run upon it.

Woodrow Wilson

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Woodrow Wilson
Age: 67 †
Born: 1856
Born: December 28
Died: 1924
Died: February 23
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And when they [American soldiers] came, they found fit comrades for their courage and their devotion. ... Joining hands with these, the men of America gave that greatest of all gifts, the gift of life and the gift of spirit.
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To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.
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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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You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand
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While we are fighting for freedom, we must see, among other things, that labor is free.
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The beauty of a democracy is that you never can tell when a youngster is born what he is going to do with himself, and that no matter how humbly he is born, no matter where he is born, no matter what circumstances hamper him at the outset, he has got a chance to master the minds and lead the imaginations of the whole country.
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Our object now, as then, is to vindicate the principles of peace and justice in the life of the world as against selfish and autocratic power, and to set up among the really free and self-governed peoples of the world such a concert of purpose and of action as will henceforth insure the observance of those principles.
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I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.
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I am so glad that I am young, so that I may give my youth to you.
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That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
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No man ever saw a government. I live in the midst of the Government of the United States, but I never saw the Government of the United States.
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The greatest embarrassment of my political career has been that active duties seem to deprive me of time for careful investigation. I seem almost obliged to form conclusions from impressions instead of from study.... I wish that I had more knowledge, more thorough acquaintance, with the matters involved.
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One cool judgement is worth a thousand hasty councils.
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Genius is divine perseverance. Divine patience I believe he originally used, perseverance is better in my opinion. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have.
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