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There is no indispensable man. The government will not collapse and go to pieces if any one of the gentlemen who are seeking to be entrusted with its guidance should be left at home.
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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Thomas Woodrow Wilson
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What every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence.
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I must beg you to indulge me in the matter of hyphens.... You will find that I have marked out a great many in the proofs. We arein danger of Germanizing our printing by using them so much, and I have a very decided preference in the matter.
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War is only a sort of dramatic representation, a sort of dramatic symbol of a thousand forms of duty. I fancy that it is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shooting at you.
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It is not an army that we must train for war it is a nation.
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The United States must be neutral in fact as well as in name.... We must be impartial in thought as well as in actiona nationthat neither sits in judgment upon others nor is disturbed in her own counsels and which keeps herself fit and free to do what is honest and disinterested and truly serviceable for the peace of the world.
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I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country.
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To think that I, the son ofthe manse, should be able to help restore the Holy Land to its people.
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Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it.
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The wisest thing to do with a fool is to encourage him to hire a hall and discourse to his fellow-citizens . Nothing chills nonsense like exposure to the air.
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Bagehot did what so many thousand of young graduates before him had done,--he studied for the bar and then, having prepared himself to practise law, followed another large body of young men in deciding to abandon it.
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We ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialists--believers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic.
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Statesmen have to bend to the collective will of their peoples or be broken.
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America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses.
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When the representatives of Big Business think of the people, they do not include themselves.
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If you lose your wealth, you have lost nothing if you lose your health, you have lost something but if you lose your character, you have lost everything.
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Princeton is no longer a thing for Princeton men to please themselves with. Princeton is a thing with which Princeton men must satisfy the country.
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America was born a Christian nation.
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Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little. . . . We must strive for normalcy to reach stability.
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The difference between a strong man and a weak one is that the former does not give up after a defeat.
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