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Self-determination is not a mere phrase. It is an imperative principle of action, which statesmen will henceforth ignore at their peril.

Woodrow Wilson

The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.
WOODROW WILSON

Democracy Design Government Hands Interest People
That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
WOODROW WILSON

Democracy King Myself
There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
WOODROW WILSON

Goodness Greatness Human Religion Service Work
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

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.
WOODROW WILSON

Class Difficult Education Liberty Manual Necessary Person Society Task
We are intensely proud of their noble record and are glad to have had the whole world see how irresistible they are in their might when a cause which America holds dear is at stake. The whole nation has reason to be proud of them.
WOODROW WILSON

Happiness Noble Proud Reason Record
A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
WOODROW WILSON

Change Consult Doubt
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
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
It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilizationitself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things we have always carried closest to our hearts.
WOODROW WILSON

Balance Carry Closet Fear Greatness Heart Peace People Terrible
The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.
WOODROW WILSON

Father Possible University Young
We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.
WOODROW WILSON

Big Dreams Greatness Growth Inspirational Man
America was born a Christian nation.
WOODROW WILSON

Born Nation Religious
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
When correcting a child, the goal is to apply light, not heat.
WOODROW WILSON

Children Heat Light
The masters of the government of the United States are the combined capitalists and manufacturers of the United States.
WOODROW WILSON

Capital Combination Government Manufacturer

Self-determination is not a mere phrase. It is an imperative principle of action, which statesmen will henceforth ignore at their peril.

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