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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
28Th U.S. President
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It is the object of learning, not only to satisfy the curiosity and perfect the spirits of ordinary men, but also to advance civilization.
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Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
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No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.
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I have had the accomplishment of something like this at heart ever since I was a boy.... So I feel tonight like the man who is lodging happily in the inn which lies half way along the journey and that in time, with a fresh impulse, we shall go the rest of the journey and sleep at the journey's end like men with a quiet conscience.
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No government has ever been beneficent when the attitude of government was that it was taking care of the people. The only freedom consists in the people taking care of the government.
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It would be the irony of fate if my administration had to deal chiefly with foreign affairs.
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I am not willing to be drawn further into the toils. I cannot accede to the acceptance of gifts upon terms which take the educational policy of the university out of the hands of the Trustees and Faculty and permit it to be determined by those who give money.
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We must believe the things We teach our children
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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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A man's rootage is more important than his leafage.
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Justice has nothing to do with expediency. Justice has nothing to do with any temporary standard whatever. It is rooted and grounded in the fundamental instincts of humanity.
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I have no happy fairyland vision that she can win.
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You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand
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The man who reads everything is like the man who eats everything: he can digest nothing, and the penalty of crowding one's mind with other men's thoughts is to have no thoughts of one's own.
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I have come slowly into possession of such powers as I have. I receive the opinions of my day. I do not conceive them. But I receive them into a vivid mind.
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When correcting a child, the goal is to apply light, not heat.
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No man ever saw a government. I live in the midst of the Government of the United States, but I never saw the Government of the United States.
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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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If you think too much about being re-elected, it is very difficult to be worth re-electing.
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Freedom exists only where the people take care of the government.
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