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I have the feeling that he would rather see a good cause fail than succeed if he were not the head of it.

Woodrow Wilson

Absolute identity with one’s cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
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Condition Identity Leadership Reason
We grow by our dreams.
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Dreams Growth One Liner
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
Character, my friends, is a byproduct. It is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.
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Character Daily Friendship Greatness
That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
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Democracy King Myself
We ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialists–believers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic.
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Act Body Politics Regard Socialist
Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the distemper’s that make an ordered life impossible.
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Breed Hungry Impossible Life Mad Order Reform
When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.
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Freedom Man Sacred War
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.
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Affair Complex Literacy Man Ordinary
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
I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.
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Company Enjoyment Friendship Myself Teaching
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
There is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.
WOODROW WILSON

Breathe Organization Power Talk Watch
I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.
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Day Lose Myself Reason Win
The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.
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Father Possible University Young
No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
WOODROW WILSON

Empty God Stomach Worship

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