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I am all kinds of a democrat, so far as I can discover but the root of the whole business is this, that I believe in the patriotism and energy and initiative of the average man.

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Woodrow Wilson
Age: 67 †
Born: 1856
Born: December 28
Died: 1924
Died: February 23
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As a matter of fact and experience, the more power is divided the more irresponsible it becomes.
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A man's rootage is more important than his leafage.
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The flag of the United States has not been created by rhetorical sentences in declarations of independence and in bills of rights. It has been created by the experience of a great people, and nothing is written upon it that has not been written by their life. It is the embodiment, not of a sentiment, but of a history.
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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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I'm a vague, conjunctured personality, more made up of opinions and academic prepossessions than of human traits and red corpuscles.
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Our object now, as then, is to vindicate the principles of peace and justice in the life of the world as against selfish and autocratic power, and to set up among the really free and self-governed peoples of the world such a concert of purpose and of action as will henceforth insure the observance of those principles.
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Tell me what is right and I will fight for it.
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The method of political science is the interpretation of life its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions.
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Where the great force lies, there must be the sanction of peace.
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When correcting a child, the goal is to apply light, not heat.
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The Bible is the one supreme source of revelation of the meaning of life, the nature of God and spiritual nature and need of men. It is the only guide of life which really leads the spirit in the way of peace and salvation.
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The highest and best form of efficiency is the spontaneous cooperation of a free people.
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One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
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No people are true Christians who do not think constantly of how they can lift their brother and sister, how they can assist their friends, how they can enlighten mankind, how they can make virtue the rule of conduct in the circle in which they live.
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There are blessed intervals when I forget by one means or another that I am President of the United States.
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Liberty is its own reward.
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Men grow by having responsibility laid upon them.
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Every one at the bottom of his heart cherishes vanity even the toad thinks himself good-looking,--rather tawny perhaps, but look at his eye!
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