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War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.

Woodrow Wilson

We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world.
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Control Domination Rule World Worst
The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.
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Leadership People Ring Voice
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
When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.
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Freedom Man Sacred War
The princes among us are those who forget themselves and serve others.
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Forget King Service Value
Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the distemper’s that make an ordered life impossible.
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Breed Hungry Impossible Life Mad Order Reform
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.
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Breathe Organization Power Talk Watch
If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
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Change Enemy Inspirational Try
A man’s rootage is more important than his leafage.
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Himself Important Man
The great monopoly in this country is the money monopoly. So long as it exists, our old variety of freedom and individual energy of development are out of the question.
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Country Development Greatness Money Question
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.
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Believe Exercise Greatness Myself Peace Profession Stand
The fewer the desires, the more peace.
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Desire Peace Spiritual
The truth is we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless.
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Economics Greatness Heart System Trap Truth
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
Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
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Democracy Form Government Principle
We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.
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Difference Time Tragedy Unknown
One of the proofs of the divinity of our gospel is the preaching it has survived.
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Divine Evidence Oneself Preach Survive
If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if an hour, I am ready now.
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Myself Preparation Ready Time
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.
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Action Appearance Expression Suggestion
I am the friend of peace and mean to preserve it for America so long as I am able. No course of my choosing or of their (nations at war) will lead to war. War can come only by the wilful acts and aggressions of others.
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Act Aggression Choice Friendship Myself Nation Peace Willing
When correcting a child, the goal is to apply light, not heat.
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Children Heat Light
If the colored people made a mistake in voting for me, they ought to correct it.
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Color Mistake Myself People Vote
We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.
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Live Rich World
A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
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Government Help Man Representation Willing
We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.
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Big Dreams Greatness Growth Inspirational Man
All things come to him who waits – provided he knows what he is waiting for.
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Knowledge Patience Wait Wisdom
We are intensely proud of their noble record and are glad to have had the whole world see how irresistible they are in their might when a cause which America holds dear is at stake. The whole nation has reason to be proud of them.
WOODROW WILSON

Happiness Noble Proud Reason Record

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