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• In fundamental theory socialism and democracy are almost if not quite one and the same. They both rest at bottom upon the absolute right of the community to determine its own destiny and that of its members. Men as communities are supreme over men as individuals. Limits of wisdom and convenience to the public control there may be: limits of principle there are, upon strict analysis, none.

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  Destiny, Men, Rights

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

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• Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting.

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  Thinking, Acting, Doe

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• Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.

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  Accomplish Nothing, Luxury, Excess

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

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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.

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  America, Elements, Scripture

  Woodrow Wilson, Mario R. DiNunzio (2006). “Woodrow Wilson: Essential Writings and Speeches of the Scholar-president”, p.59, NYU 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?

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  Children, War, Men

  "A Day of Dedication".

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• There was a time when corporations played a minor part in our business affairs, but now they play the chief part, and most men are the servants of corporations.

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  Men, Play, Corporations

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

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• Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

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  Ignorance, Responsibility, Fundamentals

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• Responsibility is proportionate to opportunity.

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  Responsibility, Opportunity

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• As a matter of fact and experience, the more power is divided the more irresponsible it becomes.

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  Power, Matter, Facts

  Woodrow Wilson (2012). “Congressional Government: A Study in American Politics”, p.77, Courier Corporation

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• We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true.

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  Love, Dream, Spring

  "By the Way" by Preston Williams, Xulon Press, Virginia (pp. 38-39), 2002.

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• Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

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  Inspirational, Teamwork, Power

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

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• America was born a Christian nation.

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  Christian, America, Born

  Woodrow Wilson, Mario R. DiNunzio (2006). “Woodrow Wilson: Essential Writings and Speeches of the Scholar-president”, p.59, NYU Press

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• The Americans who went to Europe to die are a unique breed.... (They) crossed the seas to a foreign land to fight for a cause which they did not pretend was peculiarly their own, which they knew was the cause of humanity and mankind. These Americans gave the greatest of all gifts, the gift of life and the gift of spirit.

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  Fighting, Unique, Europe

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• I would not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with great respect of the past.

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  Respect, Party, Past

  "Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson".

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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.

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  Marine, America, World

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• There is something better, if possible, that a man can give than his life. That is his living spirit to a service that is not easy, to resist counsels that are hard to resist, to stand against purposes that are difficult to stand against.

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  Men, Giving, Purpose

  Woodrow Wilson (1945). “Woodrow Wilson: Selections for Today”

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• A fault which humbles a person is of more use to him or her than a good action which puffs him or her up.

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  Humility, Puff, Use

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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 forego the privileges of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks.

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  Class, Tasks, Want

  "The Meaning of a Liberal Education". Address to the New York City High School Teachers Association, January 9, 1909.

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• Let it be your pride to show all men everywhere not only what good soldiers you are, but also what good men you are.

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  Military, Pride, Men

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

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• No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.

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  Inspirational, Life, Hope

  Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.87, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• Segregation is not humiliating but a benefit...

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  Benefits, Segregation, Humiliating

  Defending the re-segregation of federal offices, in Conference with members of the National Association for Equal Rights, November 1914.

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• The white men were roused by a mere instinct of self-preservation—until at last there had sprung into existence a great Ku Klux Klan, a veritable empire of the South, to protect the Southern country.

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  Country, Men, Self

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• I am a most unhappy man. I accidentally ruined my country. A great industrial nation is now controlled by its system of credit. Our government is no longer based on the freedom of opinion, nor on the conviction and the majority decision, it is now a government which is subjected to the conviction and the compulsion of a small group of dominant men.

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  Country, Men, Decision

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• Every people has a right to choose the sovereignty under which they shall live.

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  People, Presidential, Sovereignty

  Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.124, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• The way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.

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  Money, Way, Financial

  "Stop The "Joy Riding" By Arresting Chauffeur And Not The Automobile". pqasb.pqarchiver.com. January 14, 1914.

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