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But there's a fourth interpretation: Obama can't leave his comfort zone. No president since Woodrow Wilson has been as enamored of abstract ideas or more sure that disagreement with him is proof of ignorance, bad faith or dogmatism. As a candidate, he insisted his real opponent was 'cynicism,' and in his address last week, he returned to this trite formulation, insisting again he was bravely battling the cynics. ~ Jonah Goldberg
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The fewer the desires, the more peace. ~ Woodrow Wilson
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Just think of what Woodrow Wilson stood for: he stood for world government. He wanted an early United Nations, League of Nations. But it was the conservatives, Republicans, that stood up against him. ~ Ron Paul
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There will be no greater burden on our generation than to organize the forces of liberty in our time in order to make our quest ofa new freedom for America. ~ Woodrow Wilson
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If Germany won it would change the course of our civilization and make the United States a military nation [and] it would check his policy for a better international ethical code ~ Woodrow Wilson
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Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting. ~ Woodrow Wilson
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I not only use all the brains that I have, but all I can borrow. ~ Woodrow Wilson
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I am a most unhappy man. I accidentally ruined my country. A great industrial nation is now controlled by its system of credit. Our government is no longer based on the freedom of opinion, nor on the conviction and the majority decision, it is now a government which is subjected to the conviction and the compulsion of a small group of dominant men. ~ Woodrow Wilson
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It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilizationitself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things we have always carried closest to our hearts. ~ Woodrow Wilson
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The city of Washington is in some respects self-contained, and it is easy there to forget what the rest of the United States is thinking about. I count it a fortunate circumstance that almost all the windows of the White House and its offices open upon unoccupied spaces that stretch to the banks of the Potomacand that as I sit there I can constantly forget Washington and remember the United States. ~ Woodrow Wilson
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we read, if we have the true reader's zest and plate, not to grow more knowing, but to be less pent up and bound within a little circle, - as those who take their pleasure, and not as those who laboriously seek instruction, - as a means of seeing and enjoying the world of men and affairs. ~ Woodrow Wilson
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Woodrow Wilson has just made the decision to take part in World War I. What was he feeling then? Did he know the possible outcomes of his decision? Did he feel the burden of American lives on his shoulders? He probably said something like: "Goddamn. I love America but this could be the worst decision in American history." Don't worry yourself Woody, it wasn't. ~ Zachary Crosby
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One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat. ~ Woodrow Wilson
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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. ~ Woodrow Wilson
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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. ~ Woodrow Wilson
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Cosmology is a science which has only a few observable facts to work with. ~ Robert Woodrow Wilson
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If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it; what we have to determine now is whether we are big enough, whether we are men enough, whether we are free enough, to take possession again of the government which is our own. ~ Woodrow Wilson
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Only a peace between equals can last. Only a peace the very principle of which is equality and a common participation in a common benefit. ~ Woodrow Wilson
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Author points out in Woodrow Wilson the flipside of the positive we might call big picture vision. He observes that as college president Wilson resorted to the language of a national crusade when he met resistance in a local, academic issue. ~ David Pietrusza
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In public affairs, stupidity is more dangerous than knavery, because it is harder to fight. ~ Woodrow Wilson
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The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty. ~ Woodrow Wilson
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The spirit of [William] Penn will not be stayed. You cannot set limits to such knightly adventurers. After their own day is gone their spirits stalk the world, carrying inspiration everywhere that they go and reminding men of the lineage, the fine lineage, of those who have sought justice and right. ~ Woodrow Wilson
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We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class of necessity in every society, to forgo the privilege of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks. ~ Woodrow Wilson
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Your real statesman is first of all, and chief of all, a great human being, with an eye for all the great fields on which men likehimself struggle, with unflagging, pathetic hope, toward better things ... He is a guide, a counselor, a mentor, a servant, a friend of mankind. ~ Woodrow Wilson
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If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. Character is a by-product, and any man who devotes himself to its cultivation in his own case will become a selfish prig. ~ Woodrow Wilson
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I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose! ~ Woodrow Wilson
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[o]f course like every other man of intelligence and education I do believe in organic evolution. It surprises me that at this late date such questions should be raised. ~ Woodrow Wilson
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Freedom exists only where people take care of the government. ~ Woodrow Wilson
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The only place in the world that nothing has to be explained to me is the South. ~ Woodrow Wilson
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The firm basis of government is justice, not pity. ~ Woodrow Wilson
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You are not here merely to making a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. ~ Woodrow Wilson
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When you come into the presence of a leader of men, you know you have come into the presence of fire; that it is best not incautiously to touch that man; that there is something that makes it dangerous to cross him. - WOODROW WILSON ~ Robert A. Caro
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A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what we have been about. ~ Woodrow Wilson
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The sum of the whole matter is this - our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually. ~ Woodrow Wilson
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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. ~ Woodrow Wilson
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America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal - to discover and maintain liberty among men. ~ Woodrow Wilson
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Kissinger traces the balances made in foreign policy, including that of realism and idealism, from the times of Cardinal Richelieu through chapters on Theodore Roosevelt the realist and Woodrow Wilson the idealist. Kissinger, a European refugee who has read Metternich more avidly than Jefferson, is unabashedly in the realist camp. "No other nation," he wrote in Diplomacy, "has ever rested its claim to international leadership on its altruism." Other Americans might proclaim this as a point of pride; when Kissinger says it, his attitude seems that of an anthropologist examining a rather unsettling tribal ritual. The practice of basing policy on ideals rather than interests, he pointed out, can make a nation seem dangerously unpredictable. ~ Walter Isaacson
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The flag is a flag of liberty of opinion as well as of political liberty. ~ Woodrow Wilson
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America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us. ~ Woodrow Wilson
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Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together. ~ Woodrow Wilson
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Responsibility is proportionate to opportunity. ~ Woodrow Wilson
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War is only a sort of dramatic representation, a sort of dramatic symbol of a thousand forms of duty. I fancy that it is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shooting at you. ~ Woodrow Wilson
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We can have no sympathy with those who seek the power of government to advance their own personal interests or ambitions. ~ Woodrow Wilson
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Some of us let our dreams die, but others nourish and protect them, nurse them through bad days 'till they bring them to sunshine and light. ~ Woodrow Wilson
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We grow great by dreams. All great men are dreamers."Woodrow Wilson. ~ Karlene Pitters
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Let him [the President] once win the admiration and confidence of the country, and no other single force can withstand him, no combination of forces will easily overpower him ... If he rightly interpret the national thought and boldly insist upon it, he is irresistible; and the country never feels the zest of action so much as when the President is of such insight and caliber. ~ Woodrow Wilson
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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else. ~ Woodrow Wilson
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Congress in session is Congress on public exhibition, whilst Congress in its committee-rooms is Congress at work. ~ Woodrow Wilson
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Some people have a large circle of friends while others have only friends that they like. ~ Woodrow Wilson
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I want to re-echo my hope that we may all work together for a great peace as distinguished from a mean peace. ~ Woodrow Wilson
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It recognizes no morality but a sham morality meant for deceit, no honor even among thieves and of a thievish sort, no force but physical force, no intellectual power but cunning, no disgrace but failure, no crime but stupidity. ~ Woodrow Wilson
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The way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile. ~ Woodrow Wilson
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A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits. ~ Woodrow Wilson
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The treasury of America lies in those ambitions, those energies, that cannot be restricted to a special favored class. It depends upon the inventions of unknown men, upon the originations of unknown men, upon the ambitions of unknown men. Every country is renewed out of the ranks of the unknown, not out of the ranks of those already famous and powerful and in control. ~ Woodrow Wilson
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We know that there is a standard set for us in the heavens, a standard revealed to us in this book [the Bible] whih is the fixed and eternal standard by which we judge ourselves ... Nothing makes America great except her acceptance of those standards of judgement which are written large upon the pages of revelation ... Let no man suppose that progress can be divorced from religion, or that there is any other platform for the ministers of reform than the platform written in the utterances of our Lord and Savior. America was born a Christian nation. America was born to exemplify devotion to the elements of righteousness which are derived from the revelations of Holy Scripture. ~ Woodrow Wilson
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The question of armaments, whether on land or sea, is the most immediately and intensely practical question connected with the future fortunes of nations and of mankind. ~ Woodrow Wilson
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It is not men that interest or disturb me primarily; it is ideas. Ideas live; men die. ~ Woodrow Wilson
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I not only use all the dreams that I have, but all that I can borrow. ~ Woodrow Wilson
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When I think of the flag ... I see alternate strips of parchment upon which are written the rights of liberty and justice, and stripes of blood to vindicate those rights, and then, in the corner, a prediction of the blue serene into which every nation may swim which stands for these great things. ~ Woodrow Wilson
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America is the place where you cannot kill your government by killing the men who conduct it. ~ Woodrow Wilson
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There is no cause half so sacred as the cause of the people. There is no idea so uplifting as the idea of the service of humanity. ~ Woodrow Wilson
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It is easier to move a cemetery than to change a curriculum. ~ Woodrow Wilson
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I believe very profoundly in an over-ruling Providence, and I do not fear that any real plans can be thrown off the track. It maynot be intended that I shall be President
but that would not break my heart. ~ Woodrow Wilson
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That strain of anti-monopoly crusading egalitarianism really runs throughout American history from [Tomas] Jefferson to Woodrow Wilson, that finds its apotheosis in [Louis] Brandeis, continues through the New Deal, but then it sort of peters out in the '60s because progressives in particular become more interested in extending equality to minorities, and women, and other excluded groups, and little more suspicious of these old white guys, often from the south, who were crusaders against monopolies. ~ Jeffrey Rosen
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The whole purpose of democracy is that we may hold counsel with one another, so as not to depend upon the understanding of one man. ~ Woodrow Wilson
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You must act in your friends' interests whether it pleases them or not; the object of love is to serve, not to win. ~ Woodrow Wilson
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The law that will work is merely the summing up in legislative form of the moral judgment that the community has already reached. ~ Woodrow Wilson
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The beauty of a democracy is that you never can tell when a youngster is born what he is going to do with himself, and that no matter how humbly he is born, no matter where he is born, no matter what circumstances hamper him at the outset, he has got a chance to master the minds and lead the imaginations of the whole country. ~ Woodrow Wilson
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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. ~ Woodrow Wilson
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You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world. ~ Woodrow Wilson
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I would rather fail in a cause that would ultimately succeed, than succeed in a cause that would ultimately fail. ~ Woodrow Wilson
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You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape. ~ Woodrow Wilson
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We are expected to put the utmost energy, of every power that we have, into the service of our fellow men, never sparing ourselves, not condescending to think of what is going to happen to ourselves, but ready, if need be, to go to the utter length of self-sacrifice. ~ Woodrow Wilson
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I used to be a lawyer, but now I am a reformed character. ~ Woodrow Wilson
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It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true. ~ Woodrow Wilson
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No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation. ~ Woodrow Wilson
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The legislator must be in advance of his age.
Across the mind of the statesman flash ever and anon the brilliant, though partial, intimations of future events ... Something which is more than fore-sight and less than prophetic knowledge marks the statesman a peculiar being among his contemporaries. ~ Woodrow Wilson
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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. ~ Woodrow Wilson
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Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice. ~ Woodrow Wilson
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The Constitution was not made to fit us like a straitjacket. In its elasticity lies its chief greatness. ~ Woodrow Wilson
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There is here a great melting pot in which we must compound a precious metal. That metal is the metal of nationality. ~ Woodrow Wilson
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If you lose your wealth, you have lost nothing; if you lose your health, you have lost something; but if you lose your character, you have lost everything. ~ Woodrow Wilson
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The argument that there are just wars often rests on the social system of the nation engaging in war. It is supposed that if a 'liberal' state is at war with a 'totalitarian' state, then the war is justified. The beneficent nature of a government was assumed to give rightness to the wars it wages.

...Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt were liberals, which gave credence to their words exalting the two world wars, just as the liberalism of Truman made going into Korea more acceptable and the idealism of Kennedy's New Frontier and Johnson's Great Society gave an early glow of righteousness to the war in Vietnam.

What the experience of Athens suggests is that a nation may be relatively liberal at home and yet totally ruthless abroad. Indeed, it may more easily enlist its population in cruelty to others by pointing to the advantages at home. An entire nation is made into mercenaries, being paid with a bit of democracy at home for participating in the destruction of life abroad. ~ Howard Zinn
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If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if fifteen minutes, three days; if half an hour, two days; if an hour, I am ready now. ~ Woodrow Wilson
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After 'Lindbergh,' my publisher asked whom I wanted to write about next. I said, 'There's one idea I've been carrying in my hip pocket for 35 years. It's Woodrow Wilson.' ~ A. Scott Berg
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[Louis Brandeis] at the age of 57 decided to become the head of the American Zionist movement was more influential than anyone else in the 20th century in persuading Woodrow Wilson to recognize a Jewish homeland in Palestine. ~ Jeffrey Rosen
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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. ~ Woodrow Wilson
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A powerful Navy we have always regarded as our proper and natural means of defense; and it has always been of defense that we have thought, never of aggression or of conquest. But who shall tell us now what sort of Navy to build? We shall take leave to be strong upon the seas, in the future as in the past; and there will be no thought of offense or provocation in that. Our ships are our natural bulwarks. ~ Woodrow Wilson
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So far as the colleges go, the sideshows are swallowing up the circus. ~ Woodrow Wilson
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When Arthur Schlesinger Sr. pioneered the 'presidential greatness poll' in 1948, the top five were Lincoln, Washington, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and Jefferson. Only Wilson appears to be seriously fading, probably because his support for the World War I-era Sedition Act now seems outrageous; in this analogy, Woodrow is like the Doors and the Sedition Act is Oliver Stone. ~ Chuck Klosterman
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This book [the Bible] speaks both the voice of God and the voice of humanity, for there is told in it the most convincing of human experience that has ever been written ... and those who heed that story will know their strength and happiness and success are all summed up in the exhortation, "Fear God and keep His commandments." ~ Woodrow Wilson
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If you would be a leader of men you must lead your own generation, not the next. Your playing must be good now, while the play ison the boards and the audience in the seats ... It will not get you the repute of a good actor to have excellencies discovered in you afterwards. ~ Woodrow Wilson
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From the dim morning hours of history when the father was king and priest down to this modern time of history's high noon when nations stand forth full grown and self-governed, the law of coherence and continuity in political development has suffered no serious breach. ~ Woodrow Wilson
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Statesmen have to bend to the collective will of their peoples or be broken. ~ Woodrow Wilson
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America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses. ~ Woodrow Wilson
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We wish companionship and renewal of spirit, enrichment of thought and the full adventure of the mind; and we desire fair company, and a larger world in which to find them. ~ Woodrow Wilson
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During my pre-college years, I went on many trips with my father into the oil fields to visit their operations. On Saturday mornings, I often went with him to visit the company shop. I puttered around the machine, electronics, and automobile shops while he carried on his business. ~ Robert Woodrow Wilson
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Justice has nothing to do with expediency. Justice has nothing to do with any temporary standard whatever. It is rooted and grounded in the fundamental instincts of humanity. ~ Woodrow Wilson
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My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business, that it is something we owe to each other to understand and discuss with absolute frankness. ~ Woodrow Wilson
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The right is more precious than peace. ~ Woodrow Wilson
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