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A presidential campaign may easily degenerate into a mere personal contest, and so lose its real dignity. There is no indispensable man.

Woodrow Wilson

I do not want a government that will take care of me, I want a government that will make other men take their hands off me so I can take care of myself.
WOODROW WILSON

Care Government Hands Man Myself
We ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialists–believers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic.
WOODROW WILSON

Act Body Politics Regard Socialist
It is not an army that we must train for war; it is a nation.
WOODROW WILSON

Nation Training War
I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being.
WOODROW WILSON

Believe Democracy Energy Human Myself
We cannot be separated in interest or divided in purpose. We stand together until the end.
WOODROW WILSON

Division End Interest Purpose Separate Stand Togetherness
Never murder a man when he’s busy committing suicide.
WOODROW WILSON

Man Murder Suicide
Only peace between equals can last.
WOODROW WILSON

Equality Last Peace
Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting.
WOODROW WILSON

Act Action Life Thinking
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
This was not after all a conventional war, a struggle between equally predacious powers; it was a war to end all wars.
WOODROW WILSON

Equality Power Struggle War
I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.
WOODROW WILSON

Freedom Liberty Love Myself Nation Rich
If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.
WOODROW WILSON

Conscience Dog Examination Face Home Yourself
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
WOODROW WILSON

Inspirational Man Stream Strength
Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence is a practical document for the use of practical men. It is not a thesis for philosophers, but a whip for tyrants; it is not a theory of government but a program of action.
WOODROW WILSON

Action Document Government Independence Practical Program Theory
The great monopoly in this country is the money monopoly. So long as it exists, our old variety of freedom and individual energy of development are out of the question.
WOODROW WILSON

Country Development Greatness Money Question
Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
WOODROW WILSON

Democracy Form Government Principle

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