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Woodrow Wilson

High society is for those who have stopped working and no longer have anything important to do.
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Important Society Stop Work
You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand
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Forget Rich Task World
To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fibre of national life.
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Brutal Fight Life National Spirit
There is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.
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Breathe Organization Power Talk Watch
A presidential campaign may easily degenerate into a mere personal contest, and so lose its real dignity. There is no indispensable man.
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Dignity Easy Lose Man Personal President
If the colored people made a mistake in voting for me, they ought to correct it.
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Color Mistake Myself People Vote
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
The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.
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Leadership People Ring Voice
I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool, the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.
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Believe Encouragement Fact Freedom Greatness Safety Talk
Men grow by having responsibility laid upon them.
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Growth Man Responsibility
America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.
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Country Patriot People
Character, my friends, is a byproduct. It is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.
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Character Daily Friendship Greatness
Every people has a right to choose the sovereignty under which they shall live.
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Choice Live People Right
It is not an army that we must train for war; it is a nation.
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Nation Training War
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
The world must be made safe for democracy.
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Democracy Safety World

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