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I would not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with great respect of the past.

Woodrow Wilson

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.
WOODROW WILSON

Company Enjoyment Friendship Myself Teaching
Remember that God ordained that I should be the next president of the United States. Neither you nor any other mortal or mortals could have prevented this.
WOODROW WILSON

God Himself Mortal President Remember
Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the distemper’s that make an ordered life impossible.
WOODROW WILSON

Breed Hungry Impossible Life Mad Order Reform
No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know
WOODROW WILSON

Himself Knowledge Subject
If the colored people made a mistake in voting for me, they ought to correct it.
WOODROW WILSON

Color Mistake Myself People Vote
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.
WOODROW WILSON

Crisis Life Salvation Thinking
Progressiveness means not standing still when everything else is moving.
WOODROW WILSON

Move Progress Stand
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
The right is more precious than peace.
WOODROW WILSON

Peace Precious Right
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
Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
WOODROW WILSON

Heart Loyalty Myself Principle Sacrifice
We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.
WOODROW WILSON

Big Dreams Greatness Growth Inspirational Man
Self-determination is not a mere phrase. It is an imperative principle of action, which statesmen will henceforth ignore at their peril.
WOODROW WILSON

Determination Ignorance Phrase Work
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.
WOODROW WILSON

Class Difficult Education Liberty Manual Necessary Person Society Task
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
A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.
WOODROW WILSON

Defeat Himself Man Success
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
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
WOODROW WILSON

Inspirational Man Stream Strength
Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.
WOODROW WILSON

Ideal Identity Nation People Time World
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.
WOODROW WILSON

Darkness Light Ourselves Path Shadow True
We are not put into this world to sit still and know; we are put into it to act.
WOODROW WILSON

Act Born Growth World
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.
WOODROW WILSON

Man Mindset Oneself Reading Thinking
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.
WOODROW WILSON

Ancestor Fine Ideal Man Person Unity
I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
WOODROW WILSON

Borrow Brain Myself
You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand
WOODROW WILSON

Forget Rich Task World
The white men were roused by a mere instinct of self-preservation—until at last there had sprung into existence a great Ku Klux Klan, a veritable empire of the South, to protect the Southern country.
WOODROW WILSON

Country Existence Man Protection White
Only peace between equals can last.
WOODROW WILSON

Equality Last Peace

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