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We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.

Woodrow Wilson

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

Balance Organization Peace Power Rivalry
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
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
The man who reads everything is like the man who eats everything: he can digest nothing, and the penalty of crowding one’s mind with other men’s thoughts is to have no thoughts of one’s own.
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Man Mindset Oneself Reading Thinking
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
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Inspirational Man Stream Strength
There’s not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else’s brains.
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Brain Head Ideas Shine
Never murder a man when he’s busy committing suicide.
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Man Murder Suicide
We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.
WOODROW WILSON

Live Rich World
Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
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Democracy Form Government Principle
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
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.’
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Business Kind Liberty Sports Thinking World
It is not an army that we must train for war; it is a nation.
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Nation Training War
What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.
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Government Law Opinion Organization Seek
The whole purpose of democracy is that we may hold counsel with one another, so as not to depend upon the understanding of one man.
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Counseling Democracy Man Purpose Understand
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.
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Ancestor Fine Ideal Man Person Unity
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

Freedom Interest Man Necessary Wisdom

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