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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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When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.
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All the extraordinary men I have ever known were chiefly extraordinary in their own estimation.
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Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
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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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