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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

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
If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.
WOODROW WILSON

Conscience Dog Examination Face Home Yourself
We are intensely proud of their noble record and are glad to have had the whole world see how irresistible they are in their might when a cause which America holds dear is at stake. The whole nation has reason to be proud of them.
WOODROW WILSON

Happiness Noble Proud Reason Record
There is something better, if possible, that a man can give than his life. That is his living spirit to a service that is not easy, to resist counsels that are hard to resist, to stand against purposes that are difficult to stand against.
WOODROW WILSON

Better Counseling Difficult Life Man Possible Stand
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
One of the proofs of the divinity of our gospel is the preaching it has survived.
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Divine Evidence Oneself Preach Survive
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 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
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
Never murder a man when he’s busy committing suicide.
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Man Murder Suicide
We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.
WOODROW WILSON

Live Rich World
We grow by our dreams.
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Dreams Growth One Liner
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
The fewer the desires, the more peace.
WOODROW WILSON

Desire Peace Spiritual
To be free is not necessarily to be wise. Wisdom comes with counsel, with the frank and free conference of untrammeled men united in the common interest.
WOODROW WILSON

Freedom Interest Man Necessary Wisdom
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

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