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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

Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.
WOODROW WILSON

Accomplishment Defeat Order System
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.
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Ancestor Fine Ideal Man Person Unity
We are no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and the duress of small groups of dominant men.
WOODROW WILSON

Domination Freedom Government Majority Man Opinion Vote
“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
The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.
WOODROW WILSON

Leadership People Ring Voice
A presidential campaign may easily degenerate into a mere personal contest, and so lose its real dignity. There is no indispensable man.
WOODROW WILSON

Dignity Easy Lose Man Personal President
That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
WOODROW WILSON

Democracy King Myself
There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.
WOODROW WILSON

Peace Price Respect
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
Only peace between equals can last.
WOODROW WILSON

Equality Last Peace
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
I am not one of those who believe that a great standing army is the means of maintaining peace, because if you build up a great profession those who form parts of it want to exercise their profession.
WOODROW WILSON

Believe Exercise Greatness Myself Peace Profession Stand
Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord’s Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
WOODROW WILSON

Business Empty God Life National Spiritual Stomach Worship
We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world.
WOODROW WILSON

Control Domination Rule World Worst
Government ought to be all outside and no inside. Everybody knows that corruption thrives in secret places, and avoids public places, and we believe it a fair presumption that secrecy means impropriety.
WOODROW WILSON

Avoid Believe Corruption Government Place Public Secret Thrive
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

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