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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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Woodrow Wilson
Age: 67 †
Born: 1856
Born: December 28
Died: 1924
Died: February 23
28Th U.S. President
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Tolerance is an admirable intellectual gift but it is of little worth in politics.
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The spirit of [William] Penn will not be stayed. You cannot set limits to such knightly adventurers. After their own day is gone their spirits stalk the world, carrying inspiration everywhere that they go and reminding men of the lineage, the fine lineage, of those who have sought justice and right.
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I had rather have everybody on my side than be armed to the teeth.
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Property as compared with humanity, as compared with the red blood in the American people, must take second place, not first place.
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I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
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We never found a real model (for our vision).
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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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A right is worth fighting for only when it can be put into operation.
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It is not men that interest or disturb me primarily it is ideas. Ideas live men die.
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The way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.
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Never for a moment have I had one doubt about my religious beliefs. There are people who believe only so far as they can understand--that seems to me presumptuous and sets their understanding as the standard of the universe.
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