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That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.

Woodrow Wilson

I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.
WOODROW WILSON

Book Man Myself Possible Reading Talk Writing
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
Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
WOODROW WILSON

Caution Reason Secret Selfish
If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if an hour, I am ready now.
WOODROW WILSON

Myself Preparation Ready Time
Remember that God ordained that I should be the next president of the United States. Neither you nor any other mortal or mortals could have prevented this.
WOODROW WILSON

God Himself Mortal President Remember
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 not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
WOODROW WILSON

Borrow Brain Myself
If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. Character is a by-product, and any man who devotes himself to its cultivation in his own case will become a selfish prig.
WOODROW WILSON

Character Devotion Himself Man People Thinking
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
All things come to him who waits – provided he knows what he is waiting for.
WOODROW WILSON

Knowledge Patience Wait Wisdom
We grow by our dreams.
WOODROW WILSON

Dreams Growth One Liner
A man’s rootage is more important than his leafage.
WOODROW WILSON

Himself Important Man
Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the distemper’s that make an ordered life impossible.
WOODROW WILSON

Breed Hungry Impossible Life Mad Order Reform
Conformity will be the only virtue and any man who refuses to conform will have to pay the penalty.
WOODROW WILSON

Man Pay Penalty Refuse Virtue
The cure for bad politics is the same as the cure for tuberculosis. It is living in the open.
WOODROW WILSON

Bad Live Open Politics
It is the object of learning, not only to satisfy the curiosity and perfect the spirits of ordinary men, but also to advance civilization.
WOODROW WILSON

Curiosity Learning Object Satisfaction

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