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We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world.

Woodrow Wilson

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.
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Better Counseling Difficult Life Man Possible Stand
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
When correcting a child, the goal is to apply light, not heat.
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Children Heat Light
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
This was not after all a conventional war, a struggle between equally predacious powers; it was a war to end all wars.
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Equality Power Struggle War
The object of love is to serve, not to win.
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Love Object Service Win
You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it.
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Ancient Liberty Native Plant Safety Tears
I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.
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Day Lose Myself Reason Win
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.
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History Nation Past Remember Unknown
You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand
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Forget Rich Task World
If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
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Change Enemy Inspirational Try
America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.
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Country Head
The seed of revolution is repression.
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One Liner Oppression Revolution
I am not one of those who believe that a great standing army is the means of maintaining peace, because if you build up a great profession those who form parts of it want to exercise their profession.
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Believe Exercise Greatness Myself Peace Profession Stand
Segregation is not humiliating but a benefit.
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Benefit Humiliation Segregation
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

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