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• Here lies, in a "horizontal" position The "outside" case of Peter Pendulum, watch-maker. He departed this life "wound up" In hopes of being "taken in hand" by his Maker, And of being thoroughly "cleaned, repaired" and "set a-going" In the world to come.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Lying, Taken, Hands

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• There are blessed intervals when I forget by one means or another that I am President of the United States.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Blessed, Mean, Political

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link (1979). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• The growth of our nation and all its activities are in the hands of a few men.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Men, Hands, Growth

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• The Constitution was not made to fit us like a straitjacket. In its elasticity lies its chief greatness.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Lying, Greatness, Constitution

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link (1973). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• Reality is what I see, not what you see.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Reality

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• Death comes along like a gas bill one can't payand that's all one can sayabout it.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Bills, Gas

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• Government is merely an attempt to express the conscience of everybody, the average conscience of the nation, in the rules that everybody is commanded to obey. That is all it is.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Government, Average, Nations

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

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• The natural man inevitably rebels against mathematics, a mild form of torture that could only be learned by painful processes of drill.

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  Men, Rebel, Painful

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• Great statesmen seem to direct and rule by a sort of power to put themselves in the place of the nation over which they are set, and may thus be said to possess the souls of poets at the same time they display the coarser sense and the more vulgar sagacity of practical men of business.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Men, Soul, Vision

  Woodrow Wilson, Howard Seavoy Leach (1970). “The Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson: Authorized Ed”

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• Congress in session is Congress on public exhibition, whilst Congress in its committee-rooms is Congress at work.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Exhibitions, Rooms, Congress

  Woodrow Wilson, Ronald J. Pestritto (2005). “Woodrow Wilson: the essential political writings”

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• An evident principleis the principle of justice to all peoples and nationalities, and their right to live on equal terms of liberty and safety with one another, whether they be strong or weak.

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  Strong, Equality, Safety

  Woodrow Wilson, Edwin Anderson Alderman (1928). “Woodrow Wilson's Principles of Democracy: Being President Alderman's Memorial Address Delivered Before a Joint Session of American Congress, and President Woodrow Wilson's Addresses Delivered During the Period of the Great World War”

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• The way to be patriotic in America is not only to love America, but to love the duty that lies nearest to our hand, and to know that in performing it we are serving our country.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Country, Lying, Patriotic

  Woodrow Wilson (2012). “President Wilson's Addresses”, p.109, tredition

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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

  Regret, Writing, Writing History

  Attributed in Scribner's Magazine, Nov. 1937. This is the earliest documented evidence for this quotation, and it appears unlikely to be authentic. Marjorie Brown King, the last survivor among the people at the 1915 screening, said that Wilson walked out of the room afterwards without comment. However, at least the first part of the quotation may have been associated with Wilson as early as February 1915. According to a 2004 article by Arthur Lennig, the New York American, 28 Feb. 1915, quoted B

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• I used to be a lawyer, but now I am a reformed character.

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  Character, Lawyer, Used

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• We grow through our dreams. All great men and women are dreamers. Some, however, allow their dreams to die. You should nurse your dreams and protect them through bad times and tough times to the sunshine and light which always come.

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  Dream, Sunshine, Men

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• Scholarship cannot do without literature.... It needs literature to float it, to set it current, to authenticate it to all the race, to get it out of closets and into the brains of men who stir abroad.

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  Men, Race, Brain

  Woodrow Wilson (1913). “Mere Literature”

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• The presidential office is not a rosewater affair. This is an office in which a man must put on his war paint.

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  War, Men, Office

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• If I cannot retain my moral influence over a man except by occasionally knocking him down, if that is the only basis upon which he will respect me, then for the sake of his soul I have got occasionally to knock him down.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Men, Soul, Sake

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

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  Melting Pot, Precious Metal, Compounds

  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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• Things get very lonely in Washington sometimes. The real voice of the great people of America sometimes sounds faint and distant in that strange city. You hear politics until you wish that both parties were smothered in their own gas.

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  Lonely, Real, Party

  Woodrow Wilson (1919). “Addresses of President Wilson”

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• By 'radical,' I understand one who goes too far; by 'conservative,' one who does not go far enough; by 'reactionary,' one who won't go at all.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Political, Doe, Radicalism

  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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• The men who act stand nearer to the mass of man than the men who write; and it is in their hands that new thought gets its translation into the crude language of deeds.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Writing, Men, Hands

  Woodrow Wilson, Ronald J. Pestritto (2005). “Woodrow Wilson: The Essential Political Writings”, p.211, Lexington Books

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• Bagehot did what so many thousand of young graduates before him had done,--he studied for the bar; and then, having prepared himself to practise law, followed another large body of young men in deciding to abandon it.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Men, Law, Bars

  Woodrow Wilson (1969). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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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.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Personality, Red, Opinion

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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.

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  Leadership, Real, Struggle

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