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

  Woodrow Wilson

  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.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Money, Way, Financial

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

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• To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.

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  Thinking, Yesterday, Today

  Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.136, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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

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  Work, Men, Giving

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

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• At every crisis in one's life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving.

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  Cancer, Patriotic, Thinking

  Woodrow Wilson, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1975). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• A man's rootage is more important than his leafage.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Men, Important

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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.

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  Party, Voting, Machines

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

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• What every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence.

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  Lying, Men, Self

  Woodrow Wilson (1915). “When a man comes to himself”, p.35, Рипол Классик

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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.

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  Science, Liberty, World

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

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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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• When the representatives of "Big Business" think of the people, they do not include themselves.

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  Thinking, People, Bigs

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• Neutrality is a negative word. It is a word that does not express what America ought to feel. America has a heart, and that heart throbs with all sorts of intense sympathies... We are not trying to keep out of trouble; we are trying to preserve the foundations upon which peace can be rebuilt.

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  Peace, Negative Words, America

  "Woodrow Wilson: Selections for Today".

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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.

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  Perseverance, Genius, Brightness

  "The papers of Woodrow Wilson".

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• Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.

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  Loyalty, Heart, Mean

  Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.142, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.

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  Peace, War, Power

  Woodrow Wilson (2015). “Wilson, Volume V: Campaigns for Progressivism and Peace, 1916-1917”, p.265, Princeton University Press

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• One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.

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  Inspirational, Patriotic, Light

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

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• The highest and best form of efficiency is the spontaneous cooperation of a free people.

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  Inspirational, Life, People

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1985). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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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.

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  Gratitude, Writing, Heart

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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.

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  War, Great War, Ends

  "A Day of Dedication".

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

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  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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• No government has ever been beneficent when the attitude of government was that it was taking care of the people. The only freedom consists in the people taking care of the government.

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  Attitude, Government, People

  Woodrow Wilson (1956). “A crossroads of freedom, the 1912 campaign speeches”

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• High society is for those who have stopped working and no longer have anything important to do.

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  Important, Society

  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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• It must be a peace without victory... Victory would mean peace forced upon the loser, a victor's terms imposed upon the vanquished. It would be accepted in humiliation, under duress, at an intolerable sacrifice, and would leave a sting, a resentment, a bitter memory upon which terms of peace would rest, not permanently, but only as upon quicksand. Only a peace between equals can last.

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  Memories, War, Mean

  Address to the Senate, January 22, 1917.

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• Living political constitutions must be Darwinian in structure and in practice. Society is a living organism and must obey the laws of life, not of mechanics; it must develop. All that progressives ask or desire is permission-in an era when 'development,' 'evolution,' is the scientific word-to interpret the Constitution according to the Darwinian principle; all they ask is recognition of the fact that a nation is a living thing and not a machine.

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  Law, Practice, Political

  Woodrow Wilson, Ronald J. Pestritto (2005). “Woodrow Wilson: The Essential Political Writings”, p.121, Lexington Books

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• The man who disparages music as a luxury and non-essential is doing the nation an injury. Music now, more than ever before, is a national need.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Men, Luxury, Essentials

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