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Self-determination is not a mere phrase. It is an imperative principle of action, which statesmen will henceforth ignore at their peril.

Woodrow Wilson

One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
WOODROW WILSON

Counseling Heat Judgment Light
When correcting a child, the goal is to apply light, not heat.
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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
We are not put into this world to sit still and know; we are put into it to act.
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Act Born Growth World
We grow by our dreams.
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Dreams Growth One Liner
I believe that soldiers will bear me out in saying that both come in time of battle. I take it that the moral courage comes in going into the battle, and the physical courage in staying in.
WOODROW WILSON

Battle Believe Courage Moral Physical Soldier Stay
You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it.
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Ancient Liberty Native Plant Safety Tears
Men are not put into this world to go the path of ease, they are put into this world to go the path of pain and struggle.
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Man Pain Path Struggle World
Self-determination is not a mere phrase. It is an imperative principle of action, which statesmen will henceforth ignore at their peril.
WOODROW WILSON

Determination Ignorance Phrase Work
No man ever saw a government. I live in the midst of the Government of the United States, but I never saw the Government of the United States.
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Government Live Man Myself See
Responsibility is proportionate to opportunity.
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Opportunity Responsibility
The world can be at peace only if the world is stable, and there can be no stability where the will is in rebellion, where there is not tranquility of spirit and a sense of justice, of freedom, and of right.
WOODROW WILSON

Freedom Justice Peace Right Stability World
Big business is not dangerous because it is big, but because its bigness is an unwholesome inflation created by privileges and exemptions which it ought not to enjoy.
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Big Business Dangerous Enjoyment Privilege
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
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Inspirational Man Stream Strength
It is the object of learning, not only to satisfy the curiosity and perfect the spirits of ordinary men, but also to advance civilization.
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Curiosity Learning Object Satisfaction
The right is more precious than peace.
WOODROW WILSON

Peace Precious Right

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