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Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.

Woodrow Wilson

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
WOODROW WILSON

Borrow Brain Myself
The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.
WOODROW WILSON

Emotion Flag History
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
We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.
WOODROW WILSON

Beat Death Fight Live
You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it.
WOODROW WILSON

Ancient Liberty Native Plant Safety Tears
The masters of the government of the United States are the combined capitalists and manufacturers of the United States.
WOODROW WILSON

Capital Combination Government Manufacturer
Big business is not dangerous because it is big, but because its bigness is an unwholesome inflation created by privileges and exemptions which it ought not to enjoy.
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Big Business Dangerous Enjoyment Privilege
If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. Character is a by-product, and any man who devotes himself to its cultivation in his own case will become a selfish prig.
WOODROW WILSON

Character Devotion Himself Man People Thinking
It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilizationitself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things we have always carried closest to our hearts.
WOODROW WILSON

Balance Carry Closet Fear Greatness Heart Peace People Terrible
What is the use of voting? We know that the machines of both parties are subsidized by the same persons, and therefore it is useless to turn in either direction.
WOODROW WILSON

Direction Machine Party Person Vote
A radical is one of whom people say ”He goes too far.” A conservative, on the other hand, is one who ”doesn’t go far enough.” Then there is the reactionary, ”one who doesn’t go at all.” All these terms are more or less objectionable, wherefore we have.
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Conservation Hands Himself Object People Reaction
Self-determination is not a mere phrase. It is an imperative principle of action, which statesmen will henceforth ignore at their peril.
WOODROW WILSON

Determination Ignorance Phrase Work
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.
WOODROW WILSON

Act Aggression Choice Friendship Myself Nation Peace Willing
Conformity will be the only virtue and any man who refuses to conform will have to pay the penalty.
WOODROW WILSON

Man Pay Penalty Refuse Virtue
What every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence.
WOODROW WILSON

Imagination Indulgence Man Satisfaction Seek
A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
WOODROW WILSON

Change Consult Doubt

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