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I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being.

Woodrow Wilson

I could see now that a literary education did not fit one for the popular novelist’s trade.Once you had started using words like flavicomous or acroamatic, because you liked the sound of them, you were lost.
WOODROW WILSON

Education Literacy Lost Sound Start Yourself
The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.
WOODROW WILSON

Democracy Design Government Hands Interest People
You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it.
WOODROW WILSON

Ancient Liberty Native Plant Safety Tears
“Genius is divine perseverance.” Divine patience I believe he originally used, perseverance is better in my opinion. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have.
WOODROW WILSON

Bright Genius Myself Original Perseverance
Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God.
WOODROW WILSON

God Life Perfection Trust Work
Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting.
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Act Action Life Thinking
Government, in it’s last analysis, is organized force.
WOODROW WILSON

Analysis Force Government
If the colored people made a mistake in voting for me, they ought to correct it.
WOODROW WILSON

Color Mistake Myself People Vote
America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.
WOODROW WILSON

Country Patriot People
Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
WOODROW WILSON

Heart Loyalty Myself Principle Sacrifice
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 came to America, either ourselves or in the persons of our ancestors, to better the ideals of men, to make them see finer things than they had seen before, to get rid of the things that divide and to make sure of the things that unite.
WOODROW WILSON

Ancestor Fine Ideal Man Person Unity
Remember that God ordained that I should be the next president of the United States. Neither you nor any other mortal or mortals could have prevented this.
WOODROW WILSON

God Himself Mortal President Remember
When correcting a child, the goal is to apply light, not heat.
WOODROW WILSON

Children Heat Light
No people are true Christians who do not think constantly of how they can lift their brother and sister, how they can assist their friends, how they can enlighten mankind, how they can make virtue the rule of conduct in the circle in which they live.
WOODROW WILSON

Brother Circle Enlightenment Kind Live Man People Sister Thinking True
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

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