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• You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand

  Woodrow Wilson

  Spiritual Vision, Achievement, World Vision

  Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.15, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• I have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty, and business liberty, and every other kind of liberty, in the phrase that is common in the sporting world, 'A free field and no favor.'

  Woodrow Wilson

  Business, Equality, Liberty

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

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• I had rather have everybody on my side than be armed to the teeth.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Teeth, Sides

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

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• Men grow by having responsibility laid upon them.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Responsibility, Men, Grows

  Woodrow Wilson (1929). “When a Man Comes to Himself”, p.8, Library of Alexandria

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• One of the proofs of the divinity of our gospel is the preaching it has survived.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Divinity, Proof, Preaching

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• The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Patriotic, Patriotism, Embodiment

  Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.91, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us...

  Woodrow Wilson

  Patriotic, America, Individuality

  Speech on Military Preparedness, Pittsburgh, January 29, 1916.

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• Conformity will be the only virtue and any man who refuses to conform will have to pay the penalty.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Men, President, Pay

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• A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Success, Men, May

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• It is not an army that we must train for war; it is a nation.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Military, War, Army

  1917 Speech, Washington, 12 May.

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• We must believe the things We teach our children

  Woodrow Wilson

  Children, Believe, Teach

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• When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Work, Men, Giving

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

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• No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know

  Woodrow Wilson

  Doe, Students, Subjects

  Woodrow Wilson (2012). “The New Freedom A Call For the Emancipation of the Generous Energies of a People”, p.72, tredition

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• Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse. Untrammeled reasoning is the indulgence of the philosopher, of the dreamer of sweet dreams.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Dream, Sweet, Luxury

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link (1990). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• No nation is fit to sit in judgement upon any other nation.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Presidential, Judgement, Fit

  Speech in New York, 20 Apr. 1915, in Selected Addresses (1918) p. 79

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• There's not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else's brains.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Knowledge, Ideas, Brain

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• You have the greatest soul, the noblest nature, the sweetest, most loving heart I have ever known, and my love, my reverence, my admiration for you, you have increased in one evening as I should have thought only a lifetime of intimate, loving association could have increased them. You are more wonderful and lovely in my eyes than you ever were before; and my pride and joy and gratitude that you should love me with such a perfect love are beyond all expression, except in some great poem which I cannot write.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Gratitude, Writing, Heart

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• You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Tree, Tears, Liberty

  Woodrow Wilson, Ronald J. Pestritto (2005). “Woodrow Wilson: The Essential Political Writings”, p.120, Lexington Books

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• Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

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  God, Needs, Fear God

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• The man who reads everything is like the man who eats everything: he can digest nothing, and the penalty of crowding one's mind with other men's thoughts is to have no thoughts of one's own.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Reading, Book, Men

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• I firmly believe in Divine Providence. Without belief in Providence I think I should go crazy. Without God the world would be a maze without a clue.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Crazy, Believe, Thinking

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• My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business, that it is something we owe to each other to understand and discuss with absolute frankness.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Dream, Business, Common

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

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• The nature of men and of organized society dictates the maintenance in every field of action of the highest and purest standards of justice and of right dealing.... By justice the lawyer generally means the prompt, fair, and open application of impartial rules; but we call ours a Christian civilization, and a Christian conception of justice must be much higher. It must include sympathy and helpfulness and a willingness to forego self-interest in order to promote the welfare, happiness, and contentment of others and of the community as a whole.

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  Christian, Mean, Men

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• Government, in it's last analysis, is organized force.

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  Government, Liberty, Analysis

  Woodrow Wilson, Ronald J. Pestritto (2005). “Woodrow Wilson: The Essential Political Writings”, p.49, Lexington Books

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• Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the distemper's that make an ordered life impossible.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Revolution, Reform, Doe

  Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.287, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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