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I'm a vague, conjunctured personality, more made up of opinions and academic prepossessions than of human traits and red corpuscles.

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Woodrow Wilson
Age: 67 †
Born: 1856
Born: December 28
Died: 1924
Died: February 23
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Benevolence does not consist in those who are prosperous pitying and helping those who are not. It consists in fellow feeling that puts you upon actually the same level with the fellow who suffers.
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A fault which humbles a person is of more use to him or her than a good action which puffs him or her up.
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The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.
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Whatever may be said against the chewing of tobacco, this at least can be said of it, that it gives a man time to think between sentences.
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The Constitution was not made to fit us like a straitjacket. In its elasticity lies its chief greatness.
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Property as compared with humanity, as compared with the red blood in the American people, must take second place, not first place.
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I confess my belief in the common man.... The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.... The man who is in the melee knows what blows are being struck and what blood is being drawn.
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War isn’t declared in the name of God it is a human affair entirely.
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Death, like the quintessence of otherness, is for others.
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The greatest embarrassment of my political career has been that active duties seem to deprive me of time for careful investigation. I seem almost obliged to form conclusions from impressions instead of from study.... I wish that I had more knowledge, more thorough acquaintance, with the matters involved.
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Politics is a war of causes a joust of principles.
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This little world, this little state, this little commonwealth of our own.
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America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness which are derived from the revelations of the Holy Scripture.
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America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us...
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If you would be a leader of men you must lead your own generation, not the next. Your playing must be good now, while the play ison the boards and the audience in the seats.... It will not get you the repute of a good actor to have excellencies discovered in you afterwards.
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If the colored people made a mistake in voting for me, they ought to correct it.
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A radical is one of whom people say ''He goes too far.'' A conservative, on the other hand, is one who ''doesn't go far enough.'' Then there is the reactionary, ''one who doesn't go at all.'' All these terms are more or less objectionable, wherefore we have
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We are not put into this world to sit still and know we are put into it to act.
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Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.
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Our object now, as then, is to vindicate the principles of peace and justice in the life of the world as against selfish and autocratic power, and to set up among the really free and self-governed peoples of the world such a concert of purpose and of action as will henceforth insure the observance of those principles.
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