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

Woodrow Wilson

Government ought to be all outside and no inside. Everybody knows that corruption thrives in secret places, and avoids public places, and we believe it a fair presumption that secrecy means impropriety.
WOODROW WILSON

Avoid Believe Corruption Government Place Public Secret Thrive
It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilizationitself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things we have always carried closest to our hearts.
WOODROW WILSON

Balance Carry Closet Fear Greatness Heart Peace People Terrible
I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool, the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.
WOODROW WILSON

Believe Encouragement Fact Freedom Greatness Safety Talk
The history of liberty is a history of resistance.
WOODROW WILSON

History Liberty Resistance
When correcting a child, the goal is to apply light, not heat.
WOODROW WILSON

Children Heat Light
I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
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Borrow Brain Myself
Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
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Caution Reason Secret Selfish
A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.
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Defeat Himself Man Success
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
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
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.
WOODROW WILSON

Cooperation Man Play Servant Time
Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.
WOODROW WILSON

Friendship Fruit Growth Understand
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 Care Freedom Government People
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

Direction Machine Party Person Vote
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
Self-determination is not a mere phrase. It is an imperative principle of action, which statesmen will henceforth ignore at their peril.
WOODROW WILSON

Determination Ignorance Phrase Work

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