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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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This was not after all a conventional war, a struggle between equally predacious powers it was a war to end all wars.
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All things come to him who waits - provided he knows what he is waiting for.
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Politics is a war of causes a joust of principles.
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Some people have a large circle of friends while others have only friends that they like.
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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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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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War is only a sort of dramatic representation, a sort of dramatic symbol of a thousand forms of duty. I fancy that it is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shooting at you.
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Interest does not tie nations together it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.
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Has justice ever grown in the soil of absolute power? Has not justice always come from the ... heart and spirit of men who resist power?
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Such a mind we must desire to see in a woman,--a mind that stirs without irritating you, that arouses but does not belabour, amuses and yet subtly instructs.
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What is at the heart of all national problems? It is that we have seen the hand of material interest sometimes about to close upon our dearest rights and possessions.
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The masters of the government of the United States are the combined capitalists and manufacturers of the United States.
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A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.
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I am one who fights without a knack of hoping confidentlysimply a Scotch-Irishman who will not be conquered.
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If the colored people made a mistake in voting for me, they ought to correct it.
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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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The legislator must be in advance of his age. Across the mind of the statesman flash ever and anon the brilliant, though partial, intimations of future events.... Something which is more than fore-sight and less than prophetic knowledge marks the statesman a peculiar being among his contemporaries.
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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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