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• We want the spirit of America to be efficient; we want American character to be efficient; we want American character to display itself in what I may, perhaps, be allowed to call spiritual efficiency - clear disinterested thinking and fearless action

  Woodrow Wilson

  Spiritual, Character, Thinking

  Woodrow Wilson (1916). “Addresses of President Wilson, January 27-February 3, 1916”

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• But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts--for democracy, for the right of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their own Governments, for the rights and liberties of small nations, for a universal dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world itself at last free.

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  Heart, Fighting, Rights

  War Message, delivered 2 April 1917

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• This is history written in lightning.

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  Lightning, Hollywood, Film

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• The Constitution of the United States is not a mere lawyers' document. It is a vehicle of life, and its spirit is always the spirit of the age. Its prescriptions are clear and we know what they arebut life is always your last and most authoritative critic.

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  Age, Lasts, United States

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• The facts of the case will always have the better of [an] argument.

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  Facts, Argument, Cases

  Woodrow Wilson, Ronald J. Pestritto (2005). “Woodrow Wilson: The Essential Political Writings”, p.117, Lexington Books

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• Nothing was ever done so systematically as nothing is being done now.

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  Procrastination, Done, Politics

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1983). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• They lived long that have lived well.

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  Long, Wells

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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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  Confused, Age, Force

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

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• Justice, and only justice, shall always be our motto.

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  Justice, Motto

  First Inaugural Address, delivered 4 April 1913

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• Never attempt to murder a man who is committing suicide.

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  Suicide, Men, Political

  Letter to Bernard Baruch, August 19, 1916.

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• Never for a moment have I had one doubt about my religious beliefs. There are people who believe only so far as they can understand--that seems to me presumptuous and sets their understanding as the standard of the universe.

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  Faith, Religious, Believe

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1980). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• Princeton is no longer a thing for Princeton men to please themselves with. Princeton is a thing with which Princeton men must satisfy the country.

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  Country, Men, Princeton

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• No thoughtful man ever came to the end of his life, and had time and a little space of calm from which to look back upon it, who did not know and acknowledge that it was what he had done unselfishly and for others, and nothing else, that satisfied him in the retrospect, and made him feel that he had played the man.

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  Love, Thoughtful, Men

  Woodrow Wilson (1915). “When a man comes to himself”, p.12, Рипол Классик

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• Energy in a nation is like sap in a tree; it rises from bottom up.

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  Tree, Energy, Sap

  Woodrow Wilson (1956). “A crossroads of freedom, the 1912 campaign speeches”

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• The things that the flag stands for were created by the experiences of a great people. Everything that it stands for was written by their lives. The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.

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  Patriotic, People, Patriotism

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• I have sometimes heard men say politics must have nothing to do with business, and I have often wished that business had nothing to do with politics.

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  Men, Sometimes, Heard

  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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• One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty councils. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat. Ay any rate, if it is heat it ought to be white heat and not sputter, because sputtering heat is apt to spread the fire. There ought, if there is any heat at all, to be that warmth of the heart which makes every man thrust aside his own personal feeling, his own personal interest, and take thought of the welfare and benefit of others.

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  Heart, Men, Fire

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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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  Life, Nice, Political

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

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• Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.

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  Spiritual, Wisdom, Prayer

  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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• We [Americans] have a great ardor for gain; but we have a deep passion for the rights of man.

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  Passion, Men, Rights

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link (1977). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acquiescence.

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  Peace, Patriotic, Men

  Woodrow Wilson, Mario R. DiNunzio (2006). “Woodrow Wilson: Essential Writings and Speeches of the Scholar-president”, p.54, NYU Press

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• So far as the colleges go, the side-shows have swallowed up the circus, and we don't know what is going on in the main tent: and I don't want to continue as ringmaster under those conditions.

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  College, Swallowing, Circus

  "The Priceless Gift - The Love Letters of Woodrow Wilson and Ellen Axson Wilson".

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• What is at the heart of all national problems? It is that we have seen the hand of material interest sometimes about to close upon our dearest rights and possessions.

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  Heart, Rights, Hands

  Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.19, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• A nation is as great, and only as great, as her rank and file.

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  Files, Nations

  Woodrow Wilson (2012). “The New Freedom A Call For the Emancipation of the Generous Energies of a People”, p.59, tredition

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• Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.

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  Inspirational, Leadership, Vision

  Woodrow Wilson, Ronald J. Pestritto (2005). “Woodrow Wilson: The Essential Political Writings”, p.224, Lexington Books

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