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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

I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.
WOODROW WILSON

Book Man Myself Possible Reading Talk Writing
There’s not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else’s brains.
WOODROW WILSON

Brain Head Ideas Shine
We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class, of necessity, in every society, to forego the privileges of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks.
WOODROW WILSON

Class Difficult Education Liberty Manual Necessary Person Society Task
The right is more precious than peace.
WOODROW WILSON

Peace Precious Right
A man’s rootage is more important than his leafage.
WOODROW WILSON

Himself Important Man
We ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialists–believers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic.
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Act Body Politics Regard Socialist
Character, my friends, is a byproduct. It is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.
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Character Daily Friendship Greatness
The seed of revolution is repression.
WOODROW WILSON

One Liner Oppression Revolution
The roll of honor consists of the names of meant who have squared their conduct by ideals of duty.
WOODROW WILSON

Consist Duty Ideal Name Role
To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fibre of national life.
WOODROW WILSON

Brutal Fight Life National Spirit
If you lose your wealth, you have lost nothing; if you lose your health, you have lost something; but if you lose your character, you have lost everything.
WOODROW WILSON

Character Health Lose Lost Wealth Yourself
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
Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence is a practical document for the use of practical men. It is not a thesis for philosophers, but a whip for tyrants; it is not a theory of government but a program of action.
WOODROW WILSON

Action Document Government Independence Practical Program Theory
If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if an hour, I am ready now.
WOODROW WILSON

Myself Preparation Ready Time
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
Is there any man here or any woman, let me say is there any child here, who does not know that the seed of war in the modern world is industrial and commercial rivalry?
WOODROW WILSON

Children Commercial Man Modern Myself Rival Rivalry Woman World

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