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

  Woodrow Wilson

  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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• 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.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Cancer, Patriotic, Thinking

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

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• You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Friendship, Real Friends, Equality

  Woodrow Wilson, Mario R. DiNunzio (2006). “Woodrow Wilson: Essential Writings and Speeches of the Scholar-president”, p.381, NYU Press

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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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• 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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• The beauty of a democracy is that you never can tell when a youngster is born what he is going to do with himself, and that no matter how humbly he is born, no matter where he is born, no matter what circumstances hamper him at the outset, he has got a chance to master the minds and lead the imaginations of the whole country.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Country, Imagination, Mind

  Woodrow Wilson, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1966). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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

  Woodrow Wilson

  Lying, Men, Self

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

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

  Woodrow Wilson

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

  Woodrow Wilson

  Success, Men, May

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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

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

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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.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Thinking, People, Bigs

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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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• "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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• 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.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Law, Practice, Political

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

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

  Woodrow Wilson

  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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• Let me... remind you that it is only by working with an energy which is almost superhuman and which looks to uninterested spectators like insanity that we can accomplish anything worth the achievement. Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Discipline, Perfect, Achievement

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Attitude, Government, People

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

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• Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Selfishness, Agents, Confidential

  Woodrow Wilson, Mario R. DiNunzio (2006). “Woodrow Wilson: Essential Writings and Speeches of the Scholar-president”, p.101, NYU Press

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• A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Men, Historical, Groups

  Statement to the nation, 4 Mar. 1917

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