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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.

Woodrow Wilson

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
WOODROW WILSON

Inspirational Man Stream Strength
A radical is one of whom people say ”He goes too far.” A conservative, on the other hand, is one who ”doesn’t go far enough.” Then there is the reactionary, ”one who doesn’t go at all.” All these terms are more or less objectionable, wherefore we have.
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Conservation Hands Himself Object People Reaction
I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.
WOODROW WILSON

Day Lose Myself Reason Win
I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.
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Book Man Myself Possible Reading Talk Writing
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
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
There was a time when corporations played a minor part in our business affairs, but now they play the chief part, and most men are the servants of corporations.
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Cooperation Man Play Servant Time
The ordinary literary man, even though he be an eminent historian, is ill-fitted to be a mentor in affairs of government. For… things are for the most part very simple in books, and in practical life very complex.
WOODROW WILSON

Affair Complex Literacy Man Ordinary
It’s harder for a leader to be born in a palace than to be born in a cabin.
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Born Hard Leadership Palace
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
One of the proofs of the divinity of our gospel is the preaching it has survived.
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Divine Evidence Oneself Preach Survive
Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
WOODROW WILSON

Heart Loyalty Myself Principle Sacrifice
We ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialists–believers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic.
WOODROW WILSON

Act Body Politics Regard Socialist
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.’
WOODROW WILSON

Business Kind Liberty Sports Thinking World
“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.
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Bright Genius Myself Original Perseverance
Has justice ever grown in the soil of absolute power? Has not justice always come from the … heart and spirit of men who resist power?
WOODROW WILSON

Growth Heart Justice Power Resistance Soil Spirit

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