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A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.

Woodrow Wilson

I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.
WOODROW WILSON

Freedom Liberty Love Myself Nation Rich
If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. Character is a by-product, and any man who devotes himself to its cultivation in his own case will become a selfish prig.
WOODROW WILSON

Character Devotion Himself Man People Thinking
No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
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Empty God Stomach Worship
All things come to him who waits – provided he knows what he is waiting for.
WOODROW WILSON

Knowledge Patience Wait Wisdom
High society is for those who have stopped working and no longer have anything important to do.
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Important Society Stop Work
A fault which humbles a person is of more use to him or her than a good action which puffs him or her up.
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Action Goodness Herself Himself Humble Mistake
Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
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Caution Reason Secret Selfish
Character, my friends, is a byproduct. It is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.
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Character Daily Friendship Greatness
Segregation is not humiliating but a benefit.
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Benefit Humiliation Segregation
We are not put into this world to sit still and know; we are put into it to act.
WOODROW WILSON

Act Born Growth World
That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
WOODROW WILSON

Democracy King Myself
A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.
WOODROW WILSON

Defeat Himself Man Success
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
Conformity will be the only virtue and any man who refuses to conform will have to pay the penalty.
WOODROW WILSON

Man Pay Penalty Refuse Virtue
When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.
WOODROW WILSON

Care Growth Man Myself Observation
To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.
WOODROW WILSON

Day Save Thinking Way
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
No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.
WOODROW WILSON

Enterprise Hope Man Realization See Vision
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.
WOODROW WILSON

God Himself Mortal President Remember
Never murder a man when he’s busy committing suicide.
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Man Murder Suicide
I am not one of those who believe that a great standing army is the means of maintaining peace, because if you build up a great profession those who form parts of it want to exercise their profession.
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Believe Exercise Greatness Myself Peace Profession Stand
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
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
Government, in it’s last analysis, is organized force.
WOODROW WILSON

Analysis Force Government
The sum of the whole matter is this – our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually.
WOODROW WILSON

Civilization Spiritual Survive
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
WOODROW WILSON

Achievement Forget Greatness Hope Live Mistake Order Vision World Yourself
I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
WOODROW WILSON

Borrow Brain Myself

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