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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

We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.
WOODROW WILSON

Beat Death Fight Live
The man who reads everything is like the man who eats everything: he can digest nothing, and the penalty of crowding one’s mind with other men’s thoughts is to have no thoughts of one’s own.
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Man Mindset Oneself Reading Thinking
There’s not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else’s brains.
WOODROW WILSON

Brain Head Ideas Shine
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
Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord’s Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
WOODROW WILSON

Business Empty God Life National Spiritual Stomach Worship
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
Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
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Democracy Form Government Principle
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
We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.
WOODROW WILSON

Live Rich World
Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the distemper’s that make an ordered life impossible.
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Breed Hungry Impossible Life Mad Order Reform
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.
WOODROW WILSON

Believe Encouragement Fact Freedom Greatness Safety Talk
Today’s greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow.
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Device Future Greatness Save
This was not after all a conventional war, a struggle between equally predacious powers; it was a war to end all wars.
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Equality Power Struggle War
We are not put into this world to sit still and know; we are put into it to act.
WOODROW WILSON

Act Born Growth World
Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence is a practical document for the use of practical men. It is not a thesis for philosophers, but a whip for tyrants; it is not a theory of government but a program of action.
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Action Document Government Independence Practical Program Theory
The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.
WOODROW WILSON

Leadership People Ring Voice

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