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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.
Woodrow Wilson
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Woodrow Wilson
Age: 67 †
Born: 1856
Born: December 28
Died: 1924
Died: February 23
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The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
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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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America is not a mere body of traders it is a body of free men. Our greatness is built upon our freedom - is moral, not material. We have a great ardor for gain but we have a deep passion for the rights of man.
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You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.
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The history of liberty is a history of resistance.
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[We are] no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and the duress of small groups of dominant men.
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I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.
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We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.
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The white men were roused by a mere instinct of self-preservation—until at last there had sprung into existence a great Ku Klux Klan, a veritable empire of the South, to protect the Southern country.
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We came to America, either ourselves or in the persons of our ancestors, to better the ideals of men, to make them see finer things than they had seen before, to get rid of the things that divide and to make sure of the things that unite.
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A right is worth fighting for only when it can be put into operation.
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The difference between a strong man and a weak one is that the former does not give up after a defeat.
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I had rather have everybody on my side than be armed to the teeth.
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...I do not want a government that will take care of me, I want a government that will make other men take their hands off me so I can take care of myself.
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I confess my belief in the common man.... The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.... The man who is in the melee knows what blows are being struck and what blood is being drawn.
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Americanism consists in utterly believing in the principles of America.
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That is Gladstone, the greatest statesman that ever lived. I intend to be a statesman, too.
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You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it.
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The truth is we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless.
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Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse. Untrammeled reasoning is the indulgence of the philosopher, of the dreamer of sweet dreams.
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