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You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it.

Woodrow Wilson

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
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.
WOODROW WILSON

Character Health Lose Lost Wealth Yourself
Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the distemper’s that make an ordered life impossible.
WOODROW WILSON

Breed Hungry Impossible Life Mad Order Reform
Big business is not dangerous because it is big, but because its bigness is an unwholesome inflation created by privileges and exemptions which it ought not to enjoy.
WOODROW WILSON

Big Business Dangerous Enjoyment Privilege
No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.
WOODROW WILSON

Enterprise Hope Man Realization See Vision
It is not an army that we must train for war; it is a nation.
WOODROW WILSON

Nation Training War
There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
WOODROW WILSON

Goodness Greatness Human Religion Service Work
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
A man’s rootage is more important than his leafage.
WOODROW WILSON

Himself Important Man
Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting.
WOODROW WILSON

Act Action Life Thinking
Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God.
WOODROW WILSON

God Life Perfection Trust Work
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
If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if an hour, I am ready now.
WOODROW WILSON

Myself Preparation Ready Time
The way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.
WOODROW WILSON

Financial Mobile Stop Way
No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know
WOODROW WILSON

Himself Knowledge Subject
A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
WOODROW WILSON

Government Help Man Representation Willing

You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it.

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