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Woodrow Wilson

What is the use of voting? We know that the machines of both parties are subsidized by the same persons, and therefore it is useless to turn in either direction.
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Direction Machine Party Person Vote
The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.
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Father Possible University Young
I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.
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Company Enjoyment Friendship Myself Teaching
It is not an army that we must train for war; it is a nation.
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Nation Training War
The world must be made safe for democracy.
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Democracy Safety World
Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the distemper’s that make an ordered life impossible.
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Breed Hungry Impossible Life Mad Order Reform
Segregation is not humiliating but a benefit.
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Benefit Humiliation Segregation
Today’s greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow.
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Device Future Greatness Save
We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.
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Big Dreams Greatness Growth Inspirational Man
The masters of the government of the United States are the combined capitalists and manufacturers of the United States.
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Capital Combination Government Manufacturer
I am the friend of peace and mean to preserve it for America so long as I am able. No course of my choosing or of their (nations at war) will lead to war. War can come only by the wilful acts and aggressions of others.
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Act Aggression Choice Friendship Myself Nation Peace Willing
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
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?
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Children Commercial Man Modern Myself Rival Rivalry Woman World
Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
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Democracy Form Government Principle
Responsibility is proportionate to opportunity.
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Opportunity Responsibility
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
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.
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Border Conscience Dictate Heart Himself Spirit
The man who reads everything is like the man who eats everything: he can digest nothing, and the penalty of crowding one’s mind with other men’s thoughts is to have no thoughts of one’s own.
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Man Mindset Oneself Reading Thinking
The fewer the desires, the more peace.
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Desire Peace Spiritual
Absolute identity with one’s cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
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Condition Identity Leadership Reason
We cannot be separated in interest or divided in purpose. We stand together until the end.
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Division End Interest Purpose Separate Stand Togetherness
We are intensely proud of their noble record and are glad to have had the whole world see how irresistible they are in their might when a cause which America holds dear is at stake. The whole nation has reason to be proud of them.
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Happiness Noble Proud Reason Record
When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.
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Care Growth Man Myself Observation
The roll of honor consists of the names of meant who have squared their conduct by ideals of duty.
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Consist Duty Ideal Name Role
To be free is not necessarily to be wise. Wisdom comes with counsel, with the frank and free conference of untrammeled men united in the common interest.
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Freedom Interest Man Necessary Wisdom
You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand
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Forget Rich Task World
The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.
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Emotion Flag History

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