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Segregation is not humiliating but a benefit.

Woodrow Wilson

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.
WOODROW WILSON

Action Appearance Expression Suggestion
I would not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with great respect of the past.
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Greatness Myself Party Past Respect Talk
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
A presidential campaign may easily degenerate into a mere personal contest, and so lose its real dignity. There is no indispensable man.
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Dignity Easy Lose Man Personal President
If the colored people made a mistake in voting for me, they ought to correct it.
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Color Mistake Myself People Vote
I am the friend of peace and mean to preserve it for America so long as I am able. No course of my choosing or of their (nations at war) will lead to war. War can come only by the wilful acts and aggressions of others.
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Act Aggression Choice Friendship Myself Nation Peace Willing
Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.
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Fear God Need Yourself
No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know
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Himself Knowledge Subject
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
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.
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Crisis Life Salvation Thinking
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
No government has ever been beneficent when the attitude of government was that it was taking care of the people. The only freedom consists in the people taking care of the government.
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Attitude Care Freedom Government People
When correcting a child, the goal is to apply light, not heat.
WOODROW WILSON

Children Heat Light
A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
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Government Help Man Representation Willing
The fewer the desires, the more peace.
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Desire Peace Spiritual
Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence is a practical document for the use of practical men. It is not a thesis for philosophers, but a whip for tyrants; it is not a theory of government but a program of action.
WOODROW WILSON

Action Document Government Independence Practical Program Theory

Segregation is not humiliating but a benefit.

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