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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.
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 you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you will have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness and your own duty.
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Energy in a nation is like sap in a tree it rises from bottom up.
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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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All the extraordinary men I have ever known were chiefly extraordinary in their own estimation.
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Every people has a right to choose the sovereignty under which they shall live.
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Reality is what I see, not what you see.
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A fault which humbles a person is of more use to him or her than a good action which puffs him or her up.
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The flag is a flag of liberty of opinion as well as of political liberty.
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Death comes along like a gas bill one can't payand that's all one can sayabout it.
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A man who thinks of himself as belonging to a particular national group in America has not yet become an American. And the man who goes among you to trade upon your nationality is no worthy son to live under the Stars and Stripes.
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I have the feeling that he would rather see a good cause fail than succeed if he were not the head of it.
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An evident principleis the principle of justice to all peoples and nationalities, and their right to live on equal terms of liberty and safety with one another, whether they be strong or weak.
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A nation is as great, and only as great, as her rank and file.
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Whatever may be said against the chewing of tobacco, this at least can be said of it, that it gives a man time to think between sentences.
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If the colored people made a mistake in voting for me, they ought to correct it.
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Americanism consists in utterly believing in the principles of America.
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