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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.
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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There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.
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The question of armaments, whether on land or sea, is the most immediately and intensely practical question connected with the future fortunes of nations and of mankind.
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The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.
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A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
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We are participants, whether we would or not, in the life of the world.... We are partners with the rest. What affects mankind isinevitably our affair as well as the nations of Europe and Asia.
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We can afford to exercise the self-restraint of a really great nation which realizes its own strength and scorns to misuse it.
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We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.
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There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.
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There is one thing that the American people always rise to and extend their hand to and that is the truth of justice, and of liberty, and of peace. We have accepted that truth and we are going to led by itand through us the world, out into pastures of quietness and peace such as the world never dreamed of before.
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The Americans who went to Europe to die are a unique breed.... (They) crossed the seas to a foreign land to fight for a cause which they did not pretend was peculiarly their own, which they knew was the cause of humanity and mankind. These Americans gave the greatest of all gifts, the gift of life and the gift of spirit.
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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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Be militant! Be an organization that is going to do things! If you can find older men who will give you countenance and acceptableleadership, follow them but if you cannot, organize separately and dispense with them. There are only two sorts of men to be associated with when something is to be done: Those are young men and men who never grow old.
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You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it.
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The westward march has stopped, upon the final plains of the Pacific and now the plot thickenswith the change, the pause, the settlement, our people draw into closer groups, stand face to face, to know each other and be known.
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A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
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War isn’t declared in the name of God it is a human affair entirely.
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