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There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.

Woodrow Wilson

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

Father Possible University Young
Conformity will be the only virtue and any man who refuses to conform will have to pay the penalty.
WOODROW WILSON

Man Pay Penalty Refuse Virtue
War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.
WOODROW WILSON

Affair Declare God Human War
We are no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and the duress of small groups of dominant men.
WOODROW WILSON

Domination Freedom Government Majority Man Opinion Vote
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
No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
WOODROW WILSON

Empty God Stomach Worship
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
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
The cure for bad politics is the same as the cure for tuberculosis. It is living in the open.
WOODROW WILSON

Bad Live Open Politics
The shadows that now lie dark upon our path will soon be dispelled and we shall walk with the light all about us if we but be true to ourselves.
WOODROW WILSON

Darkness Light Ourselves Path Shadow True
It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilizationitself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things we have always carried closest to our hearts.
WOODROW WILSON

Balance Carry Closet Fear Greatness Heart Peace People Terrible
If the colored people made a mistake in voting for me, they ought to correct it.
WOODROW WILSON

Color Mistake Myself People Vote
Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
WOODROW WILSON

Caution Reason Secret Selfish
The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.
WOODROW WILSON

Emotion Flag History
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
To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.
WOODROW WILSON

Day Save Thinking Way

There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.

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