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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

There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.
WOODROW WILSON

Peace Price Respect
We are no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and the duress of small groups of dominant men.
WOODROW WILSON

Domination Freedom Government Majority Man Opinion Vote
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
WOODROW WILSON

Inspirational Man Stream Strength
A man’s rootage is more important than his leafage.
WOODROW WILSON

Himself Important Man
We cannot be separated in interest or divided in purpose. We stand together until the end.
WOODROW WILSON

Division End Interest Purpose Separate Stand Togetherness
The man who has no vision will undertake no great enterprise.
WOODROW WILSON

Enterprise Greatness Man Vision Willing
If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
WOODROW WILSON

Change Enemy Inspirational Try
No man ever saw a government. I live in the midst of the Government of the United States, but I never saw the Government of the United States.
WOODROW WILSON

Government Live Man Myself See
Any man that resists the present tides that run in the world, will find himself thrown upon a shore so high and barren that it will seem he has been separated from his human kind forever.
WOODROW WILSON

Forever Himself Human Kind Man Resistance World
When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.
WOODROW WILSON

Freedom Man Sacred War
A fault which humbles a person is of more use to him or her than a good action which puffs him or her up.
WOODROW WILSON

Action Goodness Herself Himself Humble Mistake
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
Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.
WOODROW WILSON

Friendship Fruit Growth Understand
Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.
WOODROW WILSON

Ideal Identity Nation People Time World
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
The object of love is to serve, not to win.
WOODROW WILSON

Love Object Service Win

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.

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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.

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