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• It's harder for a leader to be born in a palace than to be born in a cabin.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Leader, Palaces, Cabins

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1978). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Peace, Pay The Price, Self

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1981). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Fighting, Defeat, Beaten

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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

  Leadership, Men, Play

  Woodrow Wilson, Ronald J. Pestritto (2005). “Woodrow Wilson: The Essential Political Writings”, p.216, Lexington Books

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• I believe that soldiers will bear me out in saying that both come in time of battle. I take it that the moral courage comes in going into the battle, and the physical courage in staying in.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Believe, Soldier, Battle

  Woodrow Wilson (2012). “President Wilson's Addresses”, p.98, tredition

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• I could see now that a literary education did not fit one for the popular novelist's trade.Once you had started using words like flavicomous or acroamatic, because you liked the sound of them, you were lost.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Sound, Novelists, Using Words

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• To us in America, the reflections of Armistice Day will be filled with solemn pride in the heroism of those who died in the country's service and with gratitude for the victory, both because of the thing from which it has freed us and because of the opportunity it has given America to show her sympathy with peace and justice in the councils of the nations.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Country, Gratitude, Veterans Day

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link (1991). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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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.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Pain, War, Struggle

  Woodrow Wilson (1976). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson: 1910”

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• We came to America, either ourselves or in the persons of our ancestors, to better the ideals of men, to make them see finer things than they had seen before, to get rid of the things that divide and to make sure of the things that unite.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Men, America, Immigration

  Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.87, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• For my part, I am very much more afraid of the man who does a bad thing and does not know it is bad than of the man who does a bad thing and knows it is bad; because I think that in public affairs stupidity is more dangerous than knavery, because harder to fight and dislodge.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Fighting, Government, Stupidity

  "The New Freedom".

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• Some Americans need hyphens in their names, because only part of them has come over; but when the whole man has come over, heart and thought and all, the hyphen drops of its own weight out of his name.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Heart, Patriotic, Men

  Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.30, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• I came from the South and I know what war is, for I have seen its wreckage and terrible ruin. It is easy for me as President to declare war. I do not have to fight, and neither do the gentlemen on the Hill who now clamour for it. It is some poor farmer's boy, or son of some poor widow away off in some modest community, or perhaps the scion of a great family, who will have to do the fighting.

  Woodrow Wilson

  War, Son, Fighting

  "The papers of 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

  Justice, Humanity, Fundamentals

  Woodrow Wilson, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1981). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• The cure for bad politics is the same as the cure for tuberculosis. It is living in the open.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Tuberculosis, Cures, Bad Politics

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1978). “The papers of 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

  Inspirational, Selfish, Character

  Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.50, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• The wisest thing to do with a fool is to encourage him to hire a hall and discourse to his fellow-citizens . Nothing chills nonsense like exposure to the air.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Air, Law, Citizens

  Constitutional Government in the United States ch. 2 (1908)

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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

  Twilight, Experience, Noon

  Woodrow Wilson (1952). “Woodrow Wilson's own story”

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• The firm basis of government is justice, not pity.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Government, Justice, Pity

  First Inaugural Address, delivered 4 April 1913

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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.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Book, Simple, Men

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• I have had the accomplishment of something like this at heart ever since I was a boy.... So I feel tonight like the man who is lodging happily in the inn which lies half way along the journey and that in time, with a fresh impulse, we shall go the rest of the journey and sleep at the journey's end like men with a quiet conscience.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Lying, Ambition, Sleep

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• Tolerance is an admirable intellectual gift; but it is of little worth in politics.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Tolerance, Intellectual, Littles

  Woodrow Wilson, Ray Stannard Baker, Howard Seavoy Leach (1925). “The Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson: College and state; educational literary and political papers (1875-1913)”

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• Every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells, and when I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing. The mischief of it is that when they swell, they do not swell enough to burst.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Men, Office, Giving

  Woodrow Wilson (1916). “Wit and Wisdom of Woodrow Wilson: Extracts from the Public Speeches of the Leader and Interpreter of American Democracy, with Masterpieces of Eloquence”, Best Books

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• In the last analysis, my fellow country men, as we in America would be the first to claim, a people are responsible for the acts of their government.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Country, Men, America

  Woodrow Wilson (1920). “The Hope of the World: Messages and Addresses Delivered by the President Between July 10, 1919, and December 9, 1919, Including Selections from His Country-wide Speeches in Behalf of the Treaty and Covenant”

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• There is no indispensable man. The government will not collapse and go to pieces if any one of the gentlemen who are seeking to be entrusted with its guidance should be left at home.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Home, Men, Gentleman

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1978). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• There is no more subtle dissolvent of morals than sentimentality.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Moral, Subtle, Sentimentality

  Woodrow Wilson, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1974). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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