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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

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

Father Possible University Young
We cannot be separated in interest or divided in purpose. We stand together until the end.
WOODROW WILSON

Division End Interest Purpose Separate Stand Togetherness
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
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
We are not put into this world to sit still and know; we are put into it to act.
WOODROW WILSON

Act Born Growth World
Government, in it’s last analysis, is organized force.
WOODROW WILSON

Analysis Force Government
The object of love is to serve, not to win.
WOODROW WILSON

Love Object Service Win
The truth is we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless.
WOODROW WILSON

Economics Greatness Heart System Trap Truth
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
It’s harder for a leader to be born in a palace than to be born in a cabin.
WOODROW WILSON

Born Hard Leadership Palace
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
WOODROW WILSON

Achievement Forget Greatness Hope Live Mistake Order Vision World Yourself
Unless justice be done to others it will not be done to us.
WOODROW WILSON

Justice Ourselves People
A fault which humbles a person is of more use to him or her than a good action which puffs him or her up.
WOODROW WILSON

Action Goodness Herself Himself Humble Mistake
There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
WOODROW WILSON

Goodness Greatness Human Religion Service Work

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.

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