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Absolute identity with one’s cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.

Woodrow Wilson

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
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
Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse. Untrammeled reasoning is the indulgence of the philosopher, of the dreamer of sweet dreams.
WOODROW WILSON

Close Dreams Luxury Philosophy Thinking
The shadows that now lie dark upon our path will soon be dispelled and we shall walk with the light all about us if we but be true to ourselves.
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Darkness Light Ourselves Path Shadow True
Unless justice be done to others it will not be done to us.
WOODROW WILSON

Justice Ourselves People
We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.
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Difference Time Tragedy Unknown
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.’
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Business Kind Liberty Sports Thinking World
When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you will have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness and your own duty.
WOODROW WILSON

God Happiness Heart Reading Word Yourself
The princes among us are those who forget themselves and serve others.
WOODROW WILSON

Forget King Service Value
The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.
WOODROW WILSON

Father Possible University Young
What every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence.
WOODROW WILSON

Imagination Indulgence Man Satisfaction Seek
Men are not put into this world to go the path of ease, they are put into this world to go the path of pain and struggle.
WOODROW WILSON

Man Pain Path Struggle World
There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.
WOODROW WILSON

Balance Organization Peace Power Rivalry
If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.
WOODROW WILSON

Conscience Dog Examination Face Home Yourself
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
This was not after all a conventional war, a struggle between equally predacious powers; it was a war to end all wars.
WOODROW WILSON

Equality Power Struggle War

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