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Liberty does not consist in mere declarations of the rights of man. It consists in the translation of those declarations into definite action.
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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If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.
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Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
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The right is more precious than peace.
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I want to re-echo my hope that we may all work together for a great peace as distinguished from a mean peace.
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I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country.
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What is the use of voting? We know that the machines of both parties are subsidized by the same persons, and therefore it is useless to turn in either direction.
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The trouble with the theory [of limited and divided government] is that government is not a machine, but a living thing. This is where the living and breathing constitution comes from. It is modified by its environment, necessitated by its tasks, shaped to its functions by the sheer pressure of life.
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Every great man of business has got somewhere a touch of the idealist in him.
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Sciencehas won for us a great liberty in the physical world, a liberty from superstitious fear and from disease, a freedom touse nature as a familiar servant but it has not freed us from ourselves.
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Only a peace between equals can last. Only a peace the very principle of which is equality and a common participation in a common benefit.
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The interesting and inspiring thing about America is that she asks nothing for herself except what she has a right to ask for humanity itself.
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We shall fight for a universal dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world itself at last free.
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