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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

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
The seed of revolution is repression.
WOODROW WILSON

One Liner Oppression Revolution
The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.
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Father Possible University Young
There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.
WOODROW WILSON

Balance Organization Peace Power Rivalry
I could see now that a literary education did not fit one for the popular novelist’s trade.Once you had started using words like flavicomous or acroamatic, because you liked the sound of them, you were lost.
WOODROW WILSON

Education Literacy Lost Sound Start Yourself
To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.
WOODROW WILSON

Day Save Thinking Way
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 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.
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Freedom Justice Peace Right Stability World
I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
WOODROW WILSON

Borrow Brain Myself
I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.
WOODROW WILSON

Day Lose Myself Reason Win
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
Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.
WOODROW WILSON

Accomplishment Defeat Order System
I believe that soldiers will bear me out in saying that both come in time of battle. I take it that the moral courage comes in going into the battle, and the physical courage in staying in.
WOODROW WILSON

Battle Believe Courage Moral Physical Soldier Stay
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 white men were roused by a mere instinct of self-preservation—until at last there had sprung into existence a great Ku Klux Klan, a veritable empire of the South, to protect the Southern country.
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Country Existence Man Protection White
No people are true Christians who do not think constantly of how they can lift their brother and sister, how they can assist their friends, how they can enlighten mankind, how they can make virtue the rule of conduct in the circle in which they live.
WOODROW WILSON

Brother Circle Enlightenment Kind Live Man People Sister Thinking True

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.

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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.

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