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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

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.
WOODROW WILSON

Freedom Interest Man Necessary Wisdom
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
I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.
WOODROW WILSON

Book Man Myself Possible Reading Talk Writing
Unless justice be done to others it will not be done to us.
WOODROW WILSON

Justice Ourselves People
The sum of the whole matter is this – our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually.
WOODROW WILSON

Civilization Spiritual Survive
A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
WOODROW WILSON

Conservation Lazy Thinking
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
The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.
WOODROW WILSON

Father Possible University Young
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.
WOODROW WILSON

Luxury Man Music National Need
The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.
WOODROW WILSON

Emotion Flag History
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 man who has no vision will undertake no great enterprise.
WOODROW WILSON

Enterprise Greatness Man Vision Willing
Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting.
WOODROW WILSON

Act Action Life Thinking
If you wish your children to be Christians you must really take the trouble to be Christian yourselves. Those are the only terms upon which the home will work the gracious miracle.
WOODROW WILSON

Children Grace Home Miracle Religious Trouble
We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.
WOODROW WILSON

Live Rich World
Power consists in one’s capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.
WOODROW WILSON

Capacity Cooperation Gift Leadership Power

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