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“...We are intensely proud of their noble record and are glad to have had the whole world see how irresistible they are in their might when a cause which America holds dear is at stake. The whole nation has reason to be proud of them.”
-- Woodrow Wilson
#Marine #America #Noble
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“If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.”
-- Woodrow Wilson
#Inspiring #Dog #Silly
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“The world must be made safe for democracy.”
-- Woodrow Wilson
#Democracy #World #Safe
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“We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.”
-- Woodrow Wilson
#Presidential #Tragedy #Citizens
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“America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness which are derived from the revelations of the Holy Scripture.”
-- Woodrow Wilson
#America #Elements #Scripture
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“The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.”
-- Woodrow Wilson
#Leadership #Patriotic #Voice
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“The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.”
-- Woodrow Wilson
#Government #Hands #People
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“You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand”
-- Woodrow Wilson
#Poverty #Errands #World
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“Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.”
-- Woodrow Wilson
#Power #Government #Historical
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“I am sorry for men who do not read the Bible every day. I wonder why they deprive themselves of the strength and pleasure.”
-- Woodrow Wilson
#Bible #Sorry #Men
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“I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the civilized world - no longer a Government by free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men.”
-- Woodrow Wilson
#Country #Men #Hands
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“Genius is divine perseverance. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have.”
-- Woodrow Wilson
#Perseverance #Genius #Brightness
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“The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.”
-- Woodrow Wilson
#Strength #Perseverance #Adversity
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“Big business is not dangerous because it is big, but because its bigness is an unwholesome inflation created by privileges and exemptions which it ought not to enjoy.”
-- Woodrow Wilson
#Business #Privilege #Bigs
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“The seed of revolution is repression.”
-- Woodrow Wilson
#Revolution #Revolutionary
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“We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.”
-- Woodrow Wilson
#Positive Thinking #Thinking #World
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“We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class of necessity in every society, to forgo the privilege of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks.”
-- Woodrow Wilson
#Class #Tasks #Want
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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
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“No man has ever risen to the stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.”
-- Woodrow Wilson
#Spiritual #Men #Giving
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“America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal - to discover and maintain liberty among men.”
-- Woodrow Wilson
#4th Of July #Men #America
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“Conservatism is the policy of make no change and consult your grandmother when in doubt.”
-- Woodrow Wilson
#Grandmother #Political #Doubt
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“You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape.”
-- Woodrow Wilson
#Twilight #Experience #Noon
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“I come from the South and I know what war is, for I have seen its terrible wreckage and ruin. It is easy for me as President to declare war. I do not have to fight, and neither do the gentlemen on the Hill who now clamor for it. It is some poor farmer's boy, or the son of some poor widow - who will have to do the fighting and dying.”
-- Woodrow Wilson
#War #Son #Fighting
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“A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what we have been about.”
-- Woodrow Wilson
#Yesterday #Trying #Today
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“I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.”
-- Woodrow Wilson
#Inspirational #Life #Motivational
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“There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.”
-- Woodrow Wilson
#Leadership #Sports #Spiritual
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“One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.”
-- Woodrow Wilson
#Inspirational #Patriotic #Light
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“There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with.”
-- Woodrow Wilson
#Children #Opportunity #Equality
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“Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.”
-- Woodrow Wilson
#Leadership #Doe #Compromise
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“Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting.”
-- Woodrow Wilson
#Thinking #Acting #Doe
