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We live in an age disturbed, confused, bewildered, afraid of its own forces, in search not merely of its road but even of its direction

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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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I am the friend of peace and mean to preserve it for America so long as I am able. . . . No course of my choosing or of their (nations at war) will lead to war. War can come only by the wilful acts and aggressions of others.
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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 is a very holy and a very terrible isolation for the conscience of every man who seeks to read the destiny in affairs for others as well as for himself, for a nation as well as for individuals. That privacy no man can intrude upon. That lonely search of the spirit for the right perhaps no man can assist.
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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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...men are not put into this world to go the path of ease, they are put into this world to go the path of pain and struggle.
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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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Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
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To think that I, the son ofthe manse, should be able to help restore the Holy Land to its people.
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