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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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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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There's not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else's brains.
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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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The roll of honor consists of the names of meant who have squared their conduct by ideals of duty.
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I am so glad that I am young, so that I may give my youth to you.
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Be militant! Be an organization that is going to do things! If you can find older men who will give you countenance and acceptableleadership, follow them but if you cannot, organize separately and dispense with them. There are only two sorts of men to be associated with when something is to be done: Those are young men and men who never grow old.
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No man has ever risen to the stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.
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The seed of revolution is repression.
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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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Whate'er my doom It cannot be unhappy: God hath given me The boon of resignation.
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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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They do not need our praise. They do not need that our admiration should sustain them. There is no immortality that is safer than theirs. We come not for their sakes but for our own, in order that we may drink at the same springs of inspiration from which they themselves drank.
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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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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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We are in the presence of a new organization of society. Our life has broken away from the past.
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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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Character, my friends, is a byproduct. It is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.
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Americanism consists in utterly believing in the principles of America.
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The great monopoly in this country is the money monopoly. So long as it exists, our old variety of freedom and individual energy of development are out of the question.
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Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little. . . . We must strive for normalcy to reach stability.
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