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Woodrow Wilson

I have the feeling that he would rather see a good cause fail than succeed if he were not the head of it.
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Failure Feeling Goodness Head
Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
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Heart Loyalty Myself Principle Sacrifice
The truth is we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless.
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Economics Greatness Heart System Trap Truth
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.
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Government Live Man Myself See
At every crisis in one’s life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving.
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Crisis Life Salvation Thinking
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
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
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.
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God Happiness Heart Reading Word Yourself
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
We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.
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Live Rich World
It’s harder for a leader to be born in a palace than to be born in a cabin.
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Born Hard Leadership Palace
The world must be made safe for democracy.
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Democracy Safety World
Today’s greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow.
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Device Future Greatness Save
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.
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Class Difficult Education Liberty Manual Necessary Person Society Task
A presidential campaign may easily degenerate into a mere personal contest, and so lose its real dignity. There is no indispensable man.
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Dignity Easy Lose Man Personal President
A fault which humbles a person is of more use to him or her than a good action which puffs him or her up.
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Action Goodness Herself Himself Humble Mistake

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