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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

Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.
WOODROW WILSON

Friendship Fruit Growth Understand
I am not one of those who believe that a great standing army is the means of maintaining peace, because if you build up a great profession those who form parts of it want to exercise their profession.
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Believe Exercise Greatness Myself Peace Profession Stand
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
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Inspirational Man Stream Strength
The world can be at peace only if the world is stable, and there can be no stability where the will is in rebellion, where there is not tranquility of spirit and a sense of justice, of freedom, and of right.
WOODROW WILSON

Freedom Justice Peace Right Stability World
The truth is we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless.
WOODROW WILSON

Economics Greatness Heart System Trap Truth
This was not after all a conventional war, a struggle between equally predacious powers; it was a war to end all wars.
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Equality Power Struggle War
Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God.
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God Life Perfection Trust Work
Men are not put into this world to go the path of ease, they are put into this world to go the path of pain and struggle.
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Man Pain Path Struggle World
The man who disparages music as a luxury and non-essential is doing the nation an injury. Music now, more than ever before, is a national need.
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Luxury Man Music National Need
If you lose your wealth, you have lost nothing; if you lose your health, you have lost something; but if you lose your character, you have lost everything.
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Character Health Lose Lost Wealth Yourself
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
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
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
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.
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Affair Complex Literacy Man Ordinary
We must believe the things We teach our children
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Believe Children Ourselves Teaching
We are no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and the duress of small groups of dominant men.
WOODROW WILSON

Domination Freedom Government Majority Man Opinion Vote

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.

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