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• There are times when words seem empty and only actions seem great. Such a time has come, and in the Providence of God America will once more have an opportunity to show the world that she was born to save mankind.

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  Opportunity, America, World

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• There is a very holy and a very terrible isolation for the conscience of every man who seeks to read the destiny in affairs for others as well as for himself, for a nation as well as for individuals. That privacy no man can intrude upon. That lonely search of the spirit for the right perhaps no man can assist.

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  Lonely, Loneliness, Destiny

  Woodrow Wilson (2015). “Wilson, Volume V: Campaigns for Progressivism and Peace, 1916-1917”, p.96, Princeton University Press

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• We didn't have another choice but to do what we did, if we wanted to be accepted, because we weren't counted as human beings.

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  Choices, Accepted, Wanted

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• Liberty cannot live apart from constitutional

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  President, Liberty

  Woodrow Wilson, Ronald J. Pestritto (2005). “Woodrow Wilson: The Essential Political Writings”, p.241, Lexington Books

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• It is not men that interest or disturb me primarily; it is ideas. Ideas live; men die.

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  Men, Ideas, Interest

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• I do not want to live under a philanthropy. I do not want to be taken care of by the government.... We do not want a benevolent government. We want a free and a just government.

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  Taken, Government, Care

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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

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  Heart, Fighting, Small Nations

  Address to Joint Session of Congress asking for declaration of war, 2 Apr. 1917

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• There is one thing that the American people always rise to and extend their hand to and that is the truth of justice, and of liberty, and of peace. We have accepted that truth and we are going to led by itand through us the world, out into pastures of quietness and peace such as the world never dreamed of before.

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  Peace, Truth, Hands

  Woodrow Wilson, Albert Fried (1965). “A Day of Dedication”, New York : Macmillan [1965]

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• Some of the greatest and most lasting effects of genuine oratory have gone forth from secluded lecture desks into the hearts of quiet groups of students.

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  Heart, Groups, Gone

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1968). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• It has become a people's war, and peoples of all sorts and races, of every degree of power and variety of fortune, are involved inits sweeping processes of change and settlement.

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  War, Race, People

  Woodrow Wilson (1918). “State Papers and Addresses”

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• The great war that broke so suddenly upon the world two years ago, and which has swept up within its flame so great a part of thecivilized world, has affected us very profoundly.... With its causes and its objects we are not concerned. The obscure fountains from which its stupendous flood has burst we are not interested to search for or explore.

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  War, Flames, Years

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• The Government of the United States would be constrained to hold the Imperial German government to a strict accountability for such acts of their naval authorities.

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  War, Government, Accountability

  Woodrow Wilson, Albert Fried (1965). “A Day of Dedication”, New York : Macmillan [1965]

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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.

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  Real, Believe, Heart

  Woodrow Wilson, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1977). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• Some Americans need hyphens in their names because only part of them has come over.

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  Names, Needs, Hyphens

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

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• We are in the presence of a new organization of society. Our life has broken away from the past.

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  Past, Organization, Broken

  Woodrow Wilson, Ronald J. Pestritto (2005). “Woodrow Wilson: The Essential Political Writings”, p.107, Lexington Books

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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.

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  4th Of July, Heart, Patriotic

  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 are provincials no longer. The tragic events of the 30 months of vital turmoil through which we have just passed have made us citizens of the world. There can be no turning back.

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  Months, Events, Citizens

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• Not all change is progress.

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  Progress

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

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• The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous, event of our generation.

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  Government, Our Generation, People

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

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• A right is worth fighting for only when it can be put into operation.

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  Freedom, Fighting, Liberty

  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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• 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.

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  Sea, Land, Fortune

  Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.177, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• Man is much more than a 'rational being' and lives more by sympathies and impressions than by conclusions. It darkens his eyes and dries up the wells of his humanity to be forever in search of doctrine. We need wholesome, experiencing na­tures, I dare affirm, much more than we need sound reasoning.

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  Eye, Men, Forever

  Woodrow Wilson (2005). “On Being Human”, p.20, Cosimo, Inc.

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• ... so far as religion is concerned, argument is adjourned.

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  Argument, Concerned

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• Movies are like writing history with lightning.

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  Writing, Writing History, Lightning

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• No man ever saw the people of whom he forms a part. No man ever saw a government. I live in the midst of the Government of the United States, but I never saw the Government of the United States. Its personnel extends through all the nations, and across the seas, and into every corner of the world in the persons of the representatives of the United States in foreign
  capitals and in foreign centres of commerce.

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  Men, Sea, People

  Woodrow Wilson (1913). “Addresses, Messages and Speeches, 1897-”

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