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If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if an hour, I am ready now.

Woodrow Wilson

We ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialists–believers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic.
WOODROW WILSON

Act Body Politics Regard Socialist
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
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.
WOODROW WILSON

Brave Challenge Man Obstacle Scare
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.
WOODROW WILSON

Affair Complex Literacy Man Ordinary
The masters of the government of the United States are the combined capitalists and manufacturers of the United States.
WOODROW WILSON

Capital Combination Government Manufacturer
As a matter of fact and experience, the more power is divided the more irresponsible it becomes.
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Division Experience Fact Irresponsible Power
To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.
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Day Save Thinking Way
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.
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Country Development Greatness Money Question
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
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
No man ever saw a government. I live in the midst of the Government of the United States, but I never saw the Government of the United States.
WOODROW WILSON

Government Live Man Myself See
Has justice ever grown in the soil of absolute power? Has not justice always come from the … heart and spirit of men who resist power?
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Growth Heart Justice Power Resistance Soil Spirit
If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if an hour, I am ready now.
WOODROW WILSON

Myself Preparation Ready Time
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
A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.
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Defeat Himself Man Success
Absolute identity with one’s cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
WOODROW WILSON

Condition Identity Leadership Reason

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