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I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.

Woodrow Wilson

One of the proofs of the divinity of our gospel is the preaching it has survived.
WOODROW WILSON

Divine Evidence Oneself Preach Survive
I could see now that a literary education did not fit one for the popular novelist’s trade.Once you had started using words like flavicomous or acroamatic, because you liked the sound of them, you were lost.
WOODROW WILSON

Education Literacy Lost Sound Start Yourself
The right is more precious than peace.
WOODROW WILSON

Peace Precious Right
You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand
WOODROW WILSON

Forget Rich Task World
Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.
WOODROW WILSON

Accomplishment Defeat Order System
Benevolence does not consist in those who are prosperous pitying and helping those who are not. It consists in fellow feeling that puts you upon actually the same level with the fellow who suffers.
WOODROW WILSON

Help Level Prosperity Suffering
We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world.
WOODROW WILSON

Control Domination Rule World Worst
To conquer with arms is to make only a temporary conquest; to conquer the world by earning its esteem is to make a permanent conquest.
WOODROW WILSON

Confidence Temporary Value World
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
Today’s greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow.
WOODROW WILSON

Device Future Greatness Save
Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord’s Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
WOODROW WILSON

Business Empty God Life National Spiritual Stomach Worship
You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it.
WOODROW WILSON

Ancient Liberty Native Plant Safety Tears
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
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Inspirational Man Stream Strength
The history of liberty is a history of resistance.
WOODROW WILSON

History Liberty Resistance
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
Thought cannot conceive of anything that may not be brought to expression. He who first uttered it may be only the suggester, but the doer will appear.
WOODROW WILSON

Action Appearance Expression Suggestion

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