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You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand

Woodrow Wilson

“Genius is divine perseverance.” Divine patience I believe he originally used, perseverance is better in my opinion. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have.
WOODROW WILSON

Bright Genius Myself Original Perseverance
We are not put into this world to sit still and know; we are put into it to act.
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Act Born Growth World
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
Never murder a man when he’s busy committing suicide.
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Man Murder Suicide
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
War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.
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Affair Declare God Human War
All things come to him who waits – provided he knows what he is waiting for.
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Knowledge Patience Wait Wisdom
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.
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Believe Encouragement Fact Freedom Greatness Safety Talk
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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Avoid Believe Corruption Government Place Public Secret Thrive
We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class, of necessity, in every society, to forego the privileges of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks.
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Class Difficult Education Liberty Manual Necessary Person Society Task
We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.
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Beat Death Fight Live
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
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
I do not want a government that will take care of me, I want a government that will make other men take their hands off me so I can take care of myself.
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Care Government Hands Man Myself
Remember that God ordained that I should be the next president of the United States. Neither you nor any other mortal or mortals could have prevented this.
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God Himself Mortal President Remember
If you lose your wealth, you have lost nothing; if you lose your health, you have lost something; but if you lose your character, you have lost everything.
WOODROW WILSON

Character Health Lose Lost Wealth Yourself

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