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I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.

Woodrow Wilson

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

Crisis Life Salvation Thinking
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
WOODROW WILSON

Achievement Forget Greatness Hope Live Mistake Order Vision World Yourself
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
We ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialists–believers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic.
WOODROW WILSON

Act Body Politics Regard Socialist
Never murder a man when he’s busy committing suicide.
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Man Murder Suicide
To conquer with arms is to make only a temporary conquest; to conquer the world by earning its esteem is to make a permanent conquest.
WOODROW WILSON

Confidence Temporary Value World
The fewer the desires, the more peace.
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Desire Peace Spiritual
There is something better, if possible, that a man can give than his life. That is his living spirit to a service that is not easy, to resist counsels that are hard to resist, to stand against purposes that are difficult to stand against.
WOODROW WILSON

Better Counseling Difficult Life Man Possible Stand
I believe that soldiers will bear me out in saying that both come in time of battle. I take it that the moral courage comes in going into the battle, and the physical courage in staying in.
WOODROW WILSON

Battle Believe Courage Moral Physical Soldier Stay
The sum of the whole matter is this – our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually.
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Civilization Spiritual Survive
The ordinary literary man, even though he be an eminent historian, is ill-fitted to be a mentor in affairs of government. For… things are for the most part very simple in books, and in practical life very complex.
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Affair Complex Literacy Man Ordinary
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.
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Cooperation Man Play Servant Time
Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.
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Fear God Need Yourself
Thought cannot conceive of anything that may not be brought to expression. He who first uttered it may be only the suggester, but the doer will appear.
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Action Appearance Expression Suggestion
One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
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Counseling Heat Judgment Light
Is there any man here or any woman, let me say is there any child here, who does not know that the seed of war in the modern world is industrial and commercial rivalry?
WOODROW WILSON

Children Commercial Man Modern Myself Rival Rivalry Woman World

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