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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

To conquer with arms is to make only a temporary conquest; to conquer the world by earning its esteem is to make a permanent conquest.
WOODROW WILSON

Confidence Temporary Value World
The seed of revolution is repression.
WOODROW WILSON

One Liner Oppression Revolution
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
As a matter of fact and experience, the more power is divided the more irresponsible it becomes.
WOODROW WILSON

Division Experience Fact Irresponsible Power
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 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.
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Luxury Man Music National Need
Absolute identity with one’s cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
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Condition Identity Leadership Reason
America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness which are derived from the revelations of the Holy Scripture.
WOODROW WILSON

Born Devotion Holy Scripture
I have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty, and business liberty, and every other kind of liberty, in the phrase that is common in the sporting world, ‘A free field and no favor.’
WOODROW WILSON

Business Kind Liberty Sports Thinking World
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
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
The masters of the government of the United States are the combined capitalists and manufacturers of the United States.
WOODROW WILSON

Capital Combination Government Manufacturer
The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.
WOODROW WILSON

Father Possible University Young
I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.
WOODROW WILSON

Company Enjoyment Friendship Myself Teaching
Character, my friends, is a byproduct. It is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.
WOODROW WILSON

Character Daily Friendship Greatness
Thought cannot conceive of anything that may not be brought to expression. He who first uttered it may be only the suggester, but the doer will appear.
WOODROW WILSON

Action Appearance Expression Suggestion

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.

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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.

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