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That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.

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
The great monopoly in this country is the money monopoly. So long as it exists, our old variety of freedom and individual energy of development are out of the question.
WOODROW WILSON

Country Development Greatness Money Question
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
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
No man has ever risen to the stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.
WOODROW WILSON

Himself Hood Man Rise Service Spiritual
I do not want a government that will take care of me, I want a government that will make other men take their hands off me so I can take care of myself.
WOODROW WILSON

Care Government Hands Man Myself
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.
WOODROW WILSON

Attitude Care Freedom Government People
Is there any man here or any woman, let me say is there any child here, who does not know that the seed of war in the modern world is industrial and commercial rivalry?
WOODROW WILSON

Children Commercial Man Modern Myself Rival Rivalry Woman World
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
WOODROW WILSON

Inspirational Man Stream Strength
Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.
WOODROW WILSON

Fear God Need Yourself
A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
WOODROW WILSON

Government Help Man Representation Willing
That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
WOODROW WILSON

Democracy King Myself
There’s not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else’s brains.
WOODROW WILSON

Brain Head Ideas Shine
Absolute identity with one’s cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
WOODROW WILSON

Condition Identity Leadership Reason
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
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

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