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There's not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else's brains.
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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Great statesmen seem to direct and rule by a sort of power to put themselves in the place of the nation over which they are set, and may thus be said to possess the souls of poets at the same time they display the coarser sense and the more vulgar sagacity of practical men of business.
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One cool judgement is worth a thousand hasty councils.
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Death comes along like a gas bill one can't payand that's all one can sayabout it.
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Responsibility is proportionate to opportunity.
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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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America was born a Christian nation.
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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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If the colored people made a mistake in voting for me, they ought to correct it.
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I had rather be defeated in a cause that will ultimately triumph than triumph in a cause that will ultimately be defeated.
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There was a time when corporations played a minor part in our business affairs, but now they play the chief part, and most men are the servants of corporations.
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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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Every one at the bottom of his heart cherishes vanity even the toad thinks himself good-looking,--rather tawny perhaps, but look at his eye!
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To be free is not necessarily to be wise. Wisdom comes with counsel, with the frank and free conference of untrammeled men united in the common interest.
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If I cannot retain my moral influence over a man except by occasionally knocking him down, if that is the only basis upon which he will respect me, then for the sake of his soul I have got occasionally to knock him down.
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Whate'er my doom It cannot be unhappy: God hath given me The boon of resignation.
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Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
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You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape.
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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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A man has deprived himself of the best there is in the world who has deprived himself of this.
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It has become a people's war, and peoples of all sorts and races, of every degree of power and variety of fortune, are involved inits sweeping processes of change and settlement.
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