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It's harder for a leader to be born in a palace than to be born in a cabin.
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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The soul of me is very selfish. I have gone my way after a fashion that made me the center of the plan. And you who are so individual, who are so independent a spirit, whose soul is also a kingdom, have been so loyal, so forgiving, so self-sacrificing in your willingness to live my life. Nothing but love cold have accomplished so wonderful a thing.
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Great statesmen seem to direct and rule by a sort of power to put themselves in the place of the nation over which they are set, and may thus be said to possess the souls of poets at the same time they display the coarser sense and the more vulgar sagacity of practical men of business.
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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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The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.
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When you come into the presence of a leader of men, you know that you have come into the presence of fire - that it is best not uncautiously to touch that man - that there is something that makes it dangerous to cross him.
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We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.
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Conformity will be the only virtue and any man who refuses to conform will have to pay the penalty.
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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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No thoughtful man ever came to the end of his life, and had time and a little space of calm from which to look back upon it, who did not know and acknowledge that it was what he had done unselfishly and for others, and nothing else, that satisfied him in the retrospect, and made him feel that he had played the man.
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The Civil War created in this country what had never existed before - a national consciousness. It was not the salvation of the Union it was the rebirth of the Union.
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The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous, event of our generation.
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If the colored people made a mistake in voting for me, they ought to correct it.
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Some of the greatest and most lasting effects of genuine oratory have gone forth from secluded lecture desks into the hearts of quiet groups of students.
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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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Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.
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Only a peace between equals can last. Only a peace the very principle of which is equality and a common participation in a common benefit.
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When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.
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