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It’s harder for a leader to be born in a palace than to be born in a cabin.

Woodrow Wilson

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
It does not become America that within her borders, where every man is free to follow the dictates of his conscience, men should raise the cry of church against church. To do that is to strike at the very spirit and heart of America.
WOODROW WILSON

Border Conscience Dictate Heart Himself Spirit
Segregation is not humiliating but a benefit.
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Benefit Humiliation Segregation
We grow by our dreams.
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Dreams Growth One Liner
I am not one of those who believe that a great standing army is the means of maintaining peace, because if you build up a great profession those who form parts of it want to exercise their profession.
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Believe Exercise Greatness Myself Peace Profession Stand
What is the use of voting? We know that the machines of both parties are subsidized by the same persons, and therefore it is useless to turn in either direction.
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Direction Machine Party Person Vote
The seed of revolution is repression.
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One Liner Oppression Revolution
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
WOODROW WILSON

Achievement Forget Greatness Hope Live Mistake Order Vision World Yourself
The man who has no vision will undertake no great enterprise.
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Enterprise Greatness Man Vision Willing
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
Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.
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Friendship Fruit Growth Understand
A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what we have been about.
WOODROW WILSON

History Nation Past Remember Unknown
Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
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Caution Reason Secret Selfish
It’s harder for a leader to be born in a palace than to be born in a cabin.
WOODROW WILSON

Born Hard Leadership Palace
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
All things come to him who waits – provided he knows what he is waiting for.
WOODROW WILSON

Knowledge Patience Wait Wisdom

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