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Never murder a man when he's busy committing suicide.
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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It is not an army that we must train for war it is a nation.
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The method of political science is the interpretation of life its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions.
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When correcting a child, the goal is to apply light, not heat.
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When I think of the flag.... I see alternate strips of parchment upon which are written the rights of liberty and justice, and stripes of blood to vindicate those rights, and then, in the corner, a prediction of the blue serene into which every nation may swim which stands for these great things.
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No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know
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For my part, I am very much more afraid of the man who does a bad thing and does not know it is bad than of the man who does a bad thing and knows it is bad because I think that in public affairs stupidity is more dangerous than knavery, because harder to fight and dislodge.
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The way to be patriotic in America is not only to love America, but to love the duty that lies nearest to our hand, and to know that in performing it we are serving our country.
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...I do not want a government that will take care of me, I want a government that will make other men take their hands off me so I can take care of myself.
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I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.
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To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fibre of national life.
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The facts of the case will always have the better of [an] argument.
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There is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.
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