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The man who reads everything is like the man who eats everything: he can digest nothing, and the penalty of crowding one's mind with other men's thoughts is to have no thoughts of one's own.
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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It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilizationitself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things we have always carried closest to our hearts.
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Every great man of business has got somewhere a touch of the idealist in him.
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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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The natural man inevitably rebels against mathematics, a mild form of torture that could only be learned by painful processes of drill.
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It is the object of learning, not only to satisfy the curiosity and perfect the spirits of ordinary men, but also to advance civilization.
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The presidential office is not a rosewater affair. This is an office in which a man must put on his war paint.
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The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them.
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No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acquiescence.
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Jefferson's Declaration of Independence is a practical document for the use of practical men. It is not a thesis for philosophers, but a whip for tyrants it is not a theory of government but a program of action.
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My own ideals for the university are those of a genuine democracy and serious scholarship. These two, indeed, seem to go together.
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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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Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
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I could see now that a literary education did not fit one for the popular novelist's trade.Once you had started using words like flavicomous or acroamatic, because you liked the sound of them, you were lost.
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Americanism consists in utterly believing in the principles of America.
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The Government of the United States would be constrained to hold the Imperial German government to a strict accountability for such acts of their naval authorities.
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The world can be at peace only if the world is stable, and there can be no stability where the will is in rebellion, where there is not tranquility of spirit and a sense of justice, of freedom, and of right.
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Government ought to be all outside and no inside. . . . Everybody knows that corruption thrives in secret places, and avoids public places, and we believe it a fair presumption that secrecy means impropriety.
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Hunger does not breed reform it breeds madness and all the distemper's that make an ordered life impossible.
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A right is worth fighting for only when it can be put into operation.
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Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
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