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The way to be patriotic in America is not only to love America, but to love the duty that lies nearest to our hand, and to know that in performing it we are serving our country.
Woodrow Wilson
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Woodrow Wilson
Age: 67 †
Born: 1856
Born: December 28
Died: 1924
Died: February 23
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You have just taken an oath of allegiance to the United States. Of allegiance to whom? Of allegiance to no one, unless it be God. Certainly not of allegiance to those who temporarily represent this great government. You have taken an oath of allegiance to a great ideal, to a great body of principles, to a great hope of the human race.
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The greatest embarrassment of my political career has been that active duties seem to deprive me of time for careful investigation. I seem almost obliged to form conclusions from impressions instead of from study.... I wish that I had more knowledge, more thorough acquaintance, with the matters involved.
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We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.
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A man has deprived himself of the best there is in the world who has deprived himself of this.
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Men grow by having responsibility laid upon them.
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I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country.
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The United States must be neutral in fact as well as in name.... We must be impartial in thought as well as in actiona nationthat neither sits in judgment upon others nor is disturbed in her own counsels and which keeps herself fit and free to do what is honest and disinterested and truly serviceable for the peace of the world.
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It is a protest against the way the world has worked. (explanation of Bolshevism)
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The trouble with the theory [of limited and divided government] is that government is not a machine, but a living thing. This is where the living and breathing constitution comes from. It is modified by its environment, necessitated by its tasks, shaped to its functions by the sheer pressure of life.
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All things come to him who waits - provided he knows what he is waiting for.
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Your real statesman is first of all, and chief of all, a great human being, with an eye for all the great fields on which men likehimself struggle, with unflagging, pathetic hope, toward better things.... He is a guide, a counselor, a mentor, a servant, a friend of mankind.
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A sure sign of an amateur is too much detail to compensate for too little life.
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Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.
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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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A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.
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A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.
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We didn't have another choice but to do what we did, if we wanted to be accepted, because we weren't counted as human beings.
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It recognizes no morality but a sham morality meant for deceit, no honor even among thieves and of a thievish sort, no force but physical force, no intellectual power but cunning, no disgrace but failure, no crime but stupidity.
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