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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

I have the feeling that he would rather see a good cause fail than succeed if he were not the head of it.
WOODROW WILSON

Failure Feeling Goodness Head
There is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.
WOODROW WILSON

Breathe Organization Power Talk Watch
The man who disparages music as a luxury and non-essential is doing the nation an injury. Music now, more than ever before, is a national need.
WOODROW WILSON

Luxury Man Music National Need
What every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence.
WOODROW WILSON

Imagination Indulgence Man Satisfaction Seek
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.
WOODROW WILSON

Man Mindset Oneself Reading Thinking
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
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
The fewer the desires, the more peace.
WOODROW WILSON

Desire Peace Spiritual
All things come to him who waits – provided he knows what he is waiting for.
WOODROW WILSON

Knowledge Patience Wait Wisdom
The sum of the whole matter is this – our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually.
WOODROW WILSON

Civilization Spiritual Survive
Segregation is not humiliating but a benefit.
WOODROW WILSON

Benefit Humiliation Segregation
It is the object of learning, not only to satisfy the curiosity and perfect the spirits of ordinary men, but also to advance civilization.
WOODROW WILSON

Curiosity Learning Object Satisfaction
When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.
WOODROW WILSON

Freedom Man Sacred War
If you’ve made up your mind you can do something, you’re absolutely RIGHT.
WOODROW WILSON

Achievement Inspirational Mindset Right Yourself
At every crisis in one’s life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving.
WOODROW WILSON

Crisis Life Salvation Thinking
Character, my friends, is a byproduct. It is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.
WOODROW WILSON

Character Daily Friendship Greatness

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