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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 ordinary literary man, even though he be an eminent historian, is ill-fitted to be a mentor in affairs of government. For... things are for the most part very simple in books, and in practical life very complex.
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To conquer with arms is to make only a temporary conquest to conquer the world by earning its esteem is to make a permanent conquest.
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Every people has a right to choose the sovereignty under which they shall live.
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Wilson was once asked how long it took him to write a speech. He answered, 'That depends. If I am to speak 10 minutes, I need a week for preparation. If 15 minutes, 3 days. If half hour, two days. If an hour, I am ready now.'
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My hope is ... that we may recover ... something of a renewal of that vision of the law with which men may be supposed to have started out with in the old days of the oracles, who communed with the intimations of divinity.
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Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.
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The literary gift is a very dangerous gift to possess if you are not telling the truth, and I would a great deal rather, for my part, have a man stumble in his speech than to feel he was so exceedingly smooth that he had better be watched both day and night.
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What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.
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Reality is what I see, not what you see.
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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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It is imperative that we should not only master them, but also act upon them, and act very definitely.
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The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous, event of our generation.
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Congress in session is Congress on public exhibition, whilst Congress in its committee-rooms is Congress at work.
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The greatest and truest models for all oratorsis Demosthenes. One who has not studied deeply and constantly all the great speeches of the great Athenian, is not prepared to speak in public. Only as the constant companion of Demosthenes, Burke, Fox, Canning and Webster, can we hope to become orators.
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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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I must beg you to indulge me in the matter of hyphens.... You will find that I have marked out a great many in the proofs. We arein danger of Germanizing our printing by using them so much, and I have a very decided preference in the matter.
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Politics is a war of causes a joust of principles. Government is too serious a matter to admit of meaningless courtesies.
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The seed of revolution is repression.
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My best training came from my father.
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This little world, this little state, this little commonwealth of our own.
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