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The cure for bad politics is the same as the cure for tuberculosis. It is living in the open.

Woodrow Wilson

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.
WOODROW WILSON

Affair Complex Literacy Man Ordinary
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
Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.
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Ideal Identity Nation People Time World
The princes among us are those who forget themselves and serve others.
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Forget King Service Value
When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.
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Freedom Man Sacred War
I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.
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Company Enjoyment Friendship Myself Teaching
When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.
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Care Growth Man Myself Observation
I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.
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Book Man Myself Possible Reading Talk Writing
If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if an hour, I am ready now.
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Myself Preparation Ready Time
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
Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.
WOODROW WILSON

Fear God Need Yourself
War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.
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Affair Declare God Human War
We are not put into this world to sit still and know; we are put into it to act.
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Act Born Growth World
A radical is one of whom people say ”He goes too far.” A conservative, on the other hand, is one who ”doesn’t go far enough.” Then there is the reactionary, ”one who doesn’t go at all.” All these terms are more or less objectionable, wherefore we have.
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Conservation Hands Himself Object People Reaction
A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
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Change Consult Doubt
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

The cure for bad politics is the same as the cure for tuberculosis. It is living in the open.

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