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If the colored people made a mistake in voting for me, they ought to correct it.

Woodrow Wilson

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.
WOODROW WILSON

Better Counseling Difficult Life Man Possible Stand
One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
WOODROW WILSON

Counseling Heat Judgment Light
It does not become America that within her borders, where every man is free to follow the dictates of his conscience, men should raise the cry of church against church. To do that is to strike at the very spirit and heart of America.
WOODROW WILSON

Border Conscience Dictate Heart Himself Spirit
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
We came to America, either ourselves or in the persons of our ancestors, to better the ideals of men, to make them see finer things than they had seen before, to get rid of the things that divide and to make sure of the things that unite.
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Ancestor Fine Ideal Man Person Unity
This was not after all a conventional war, a struggle between equally predacious powers; it was a war to end all wars.
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Equality Power Struggle War
“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
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
Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.
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Fear God Need Yourself
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
Power consists in one’s capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.
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Capacity Cooperation Gift Leadership Power
The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them.
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Brave Challenge Man Obstacle Scare
The right is more precious than peace.
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Peace Precious Right
We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.
WOODROW WILSON

Live Rich World
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.
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Forever Himself Human Kind Man Resistance World
Big business is not dangerous because it is big, but because its bigness is an unwholesome inflation created by privileges and exemptions which it ought not to enjoy.
WOODROW WILSON

Big Business Dangerous Enjoyment Privilege

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