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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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Woodrow Wilson
Age: 67 †
Born: 1856
Born: December 28
Died: 1924
Died: February 23
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The natural man inevitably rebels against mathematics, a mild form of torture that could only be learned by painful processes of drill.
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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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Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.
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I am a most unhappy man. I accidentally ruined my country. A great industrial nation is now controlled by its system of credit. Our government is no longer based on the freedom of opinion, nor on the conviction and the majority decision, it is now a government which is subjected to the conviction and the compulsion of a small group of dominant men.
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