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• The history of liberty is the history of limitations on the power of government, not the increase of it. When we resist, therefore, the concentration of power, we are resisting the processes of death, because concentration of power is what always precedes the destruction of human liberties.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Death, Power, Government

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• I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Country, Men, Nwo

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• This was not after all a conventional war, a struggle between equally predacious powers; it was a war to end all wars.

  Woodrow Wilson

  War, Great War, Ends

  "A Day of Dedication".

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• Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the sovereignty of self-governing people.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Self, America, People

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

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• "Genius is divine perseverance." Divine patience I believe he originally used, perseverance is better in my opinion. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Perseverance, Genius, Brightness

  "The papers of Woodrow Wilson".

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• When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you will have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness and your own duty.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Love, Happiness, Bible

  Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.218, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• The shadows that now lie dark upon our path will soon be dispelled and we shall walk with the light all about us if we but be true to ourselves.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Lying, Dark, Light

  Woodrow Wilson (2015). “Wilson, Volume V: Campaigns for Progressivism and Peace, 1916-1917”, p.368, Princeton University Press

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• Is there any man here or any woman, let me say is there any child here, who does not know that the seed of war in the modern world is industrial and commercial rivalry?

  Woodrow Wilson

  Children, War, Men

  "A Day of Dedication".

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• Our civilization cannot survive materially unless it is redeemed spiritually. It can be saved only by becoming permeated with the Spirit of Christ, and being made free and happy by practices which spring out of that spirit. Only thus can discontent be driven out and all shadows lifted from the road ahead.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Spring, Practice, Civilization

  Woodrow Wilson, United States. President (1913-1921 : Wilson) (1924). “The messages and papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• A radical is one of whom people say ''He goes too far.'' A conservative, on the other hand, is one who ''doesn't go far enough.'' Then there is the reactionary, ''one who doesn't go at all.'' All these terms are more or less objectionable, wherefore we have

  Woodrow Wilson

  Hands, People, Progress

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link (1976). “The Papers of 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.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Country, Men, Usa

  Woodrow Wilson (2012). “The New Freedom A Call For the Emancipation of the Generous Energies of a People”, p.190, tredition

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• 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.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Men, Saws, United States

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

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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

  War, Heart, Fighting

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

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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

  Sacrifice, Men, Thinking

  Woodrow Wilson (2012). “President Wilson's Addresses”, p.95, tredition

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• My own ideals for the university are those of a genuine democracy and serious scholarship. These two, indeed, seem to go together.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Two, Democracy, Together

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• What is the use of voting? We know that the machines of both parties are subsidized by the same persons, and therefore it is useless to turn in either direction.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Party, Voting, Machines

  Woodrow Wilson, Ronald J. Pestritto (2005). “Woodrow Wilson: The Essential Political Writings”, p.115, Lexington Books

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• If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if an hour, I am ready now.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Communication, Preparation, Needs

  Quoted in Josephus Daniels, TheWilson Era: Years of War and After (1946) See Pascal 1; Thoreau 34

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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

  Thinking, Self, Cities

  Woodrow Wilson (2012). “President Wilson's Addresses”, p.55, tredition

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• A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Men, Thinking, Political

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• Sciencehas won for us a great liberty in the physical world, a liberty from superstitious fear and from disease, a freedom touse nature as a familiar servant; but it has not freed us from ourselves.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Science, Liberty, World

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link (1971). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Inspirational, Leadership, Successful

  Woodrow Wilson, Mario R. DiNunzio (2006). “Woodrow Wilson: Essential Writings and Speeches of the Scholar-president”, p.72, NYU Press

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• Thought cannot conceive of anything that may not be brought to expression. He who first uttered it may be only the suggester, but the doer will appear.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Expression, May, Doers

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• My best training came from my father.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Funny, Dad, Father

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• Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.

  Woodrow Wilson

  4th Of July, Patriotic, America

  Address supporting League of Nations, Sioux Falls, S.D., 8 Sept. 1919

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• A presidential campaign may easily degenerate into a mere personal contest, and so lose its real dignity. There is no indispensable man.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Real, Men, Presidential

  Speech accepting Democratic presidential nomination, Seagirt, N.J., 7 Aug. 1912

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