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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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When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.
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Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.
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We shall not, I believe, be obliged to alter our policy of watchful waiting.
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Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light...
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The commands of democracy are as imperative as its privileges and opportunities are wide and generous. Its compulsion is upon us.
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To conquer with arms is to make only a temporary conquest to conquer the world by earning its esteem is to make a permanent conquest.
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And while you bring all countries with you, you come with a purpose of leaving all other countries behind you - bringing what is best of their spirit, but not looking over your shoulders and seeking to perpetuate what you intended to leave behind in them.
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The cure for bad politics is the same as the cure for tuberculosis. It is living in the open.
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Things get very lonely in Washington sometimes. The real voice of the great people of America sometimes sounds faint and distant in that strange city. You hear politics until you wish that both parties were smothered in their own gas.
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I want to re-echo my hope that we may all work together for a great peace as distinguished from a mean peace.
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The roll of honor consists of the names of meant who have squared their conduct by ideals of duty.
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Have you thought of the sufferings of Armenia? You poured out your money to help succor the Armenians after they suffered now set your strength so that they shall never suffer again.
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His [the President's] office is anything he has the sagacity and force to make it.
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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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One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
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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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Every country is renewed out of the unknown ranks and not out of the ranks of those already famous and powerful and in control.
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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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Wilson was once asked how long it took him to write a speech. He answered, 'That depends. If I am to speak 10 minutes, I need a week for preparation. If 15 minutes, 3 days. If half hour, two days. If an hour, I am ready now.'
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The profession I chose was politics the profession I entered was law. I entered the one because I thought it would lead to the other.
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