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To be free is not necessarily to be wise. Wisdom comes with counsel, with the frank and free conference of untrammeled men united in the common interest.

Woodrow Wilson

I have the feeling that he would rather see a good cause fail than succeed if he were not the head of it.
WOODROW WILSON

Failure Feeling Goodness Head
I do not want a government that will take care of me, I want a government that will make other men take their hands off me so I can take care of myself.
WOODROW WILSON

Care Government Hands Man Myself
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

History Nation Past Remember Unknown
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

Conscience Dog Examination Face Home Yourself
We grow by our dreams.
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Dreams Growth One Liner
Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting.
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Act Action Life Thinking
We came to America, either ourselves or in the persons of our ancestors, to better the ideals of men, to make them see finer things than they had seen before, to get rid of the things that divide and to make sure of the things that unite.
WOODROW WILSON

Ancestor Fine Ideal Man Person Unity
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 Kind Liberty Sports Thinking World
Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
WOODROW WILSON

Democracy Form Government Principle
There’s not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else’s brains.
WOODROW WILSON

Brain Head Ideas Shine
The world can be at peace only if the world is stable, and there can be no stability where the will is in rebellion, where there is not tranquility of spirit and a sense of justice, of freedom, and of right.
WOODROW WILSON

Freedom Justice Peace Right Stability World
Absolute identity with one’s cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
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Condition Identity Leadership Reason
Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.
WOODROW WILSON

Accomplishment Defeat Order System
What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.
WOODROW WILSON

Government Law Opinion Organization Seek
One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
WOODROW WILSON

Counseling Heat Judgment Light
A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
WOODROW WILSON

Conservation Lazy Thinking

To be free is not necessarily to be wise. Wisdom comes with counsel, with the frank and free conference of untrammeled men united in the common interest.

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