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Woodrow Wilson

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

Borrow Brain Myself
America was born a Christian nation.
WOODROW WILSON

Born Nation Religious
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.
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Education Literacy Lost Sound Start Yourself
If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
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Change Enemy Inspirational Try
If you wish your children to be Christians you must really take the trouble to be Christian yourselves. Those are the only terms upon which the home will work the gracious miracle.
WOODROW WILSON

Children Grace Home Miracle Religious Trouble
No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know
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Himself Knowledge Subject
That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
WOODROW WILSON

Democracy King Myself
We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.
WOODROW WILSON

Beat Death Fight Live
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

Class Difficult Education Liberty Manual Necessary Person Society Task
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 man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.
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Enterprise Hope Man Realization See Vision
Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.
WOODROW WILSON

Fear God Need Yourself
The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.
WOODROW WILSON

Emotion Flag History

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