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1. "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
2. "The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy." ~ Woodrow Wilson
3. "Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it." ~ Woodrow Wilson
4. "A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible." ~ Woodrow Wilson
5. "The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people." ~ Woodrow Wilson
6. "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
7. "America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal - to discover and maintain liberty among men." ~ Woodrow Wilson
8. "The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them." ~ Woodrow Wilson
9. "I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something." ~ Woodrow Wilson
10. "I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow." ~ Woodrow Wilson
11. "I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose." ~ Woodrow Wilson
12. "The seed of revolution is repression." ~ Woodrow Wilson
13. "The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it." ~ Woodrow Wilson
14. "There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with." ~ Woodrow Wilson
15. "One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat." ~ Woodrow Wilson
16. "America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses." ~ Woodrow Wilson
17. "There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect." ~ Woodrow Wilson
18. "How is the schoolmaster, the nation, to know which boy needs the whipping?" ~ Woodrow Wilson
19. "No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation." ~ Woodrow Wilson
20. "When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare." ~ Woodrow Wilson
21. "The world has a habit of going on." ~ Woodrow Wilson
22. "Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the sovereignty of self-governing people." ~ Woodrow Wilson
23. "You know how impossible it is, in short, to have a free nation if it is a military nation and under military orders" ~ Woodrow Wilson
24. "There is more of a nation's politics to be got out of its poetry than out of all its systematic writers on public affairs and constitutions." ~ Woodrow Wilson
25. "If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if fifteen minutes, three days; if half an hour, two days; if an hour, I am ready now." ~ Woodrow Wilson
26. "We can have no sympathy with those who seek the power of government to advance their own personal interests or ambitions." ~ Woodrow Wilson
27. "if Germany won it would change the course of our civilization and make the United States a military nation [and] it would check his policy for a better international ethical code" ~ Woodrow Wilson
28. "I would rather fail in a cause that would ultimately succeed, than succeed in a cause that would ultimately fail." ~ Woodrow Wilson
29. "We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study." ~ Woodrow Wilson
30. "We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this." ~ Woodrow Wilson
31. "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." ~ Woodrow Wilson
32. "You have the greatest soul, the noblest nature, the sweetest, most loving heart I have ever known, and my love, my reverence, my admiration for you, you have increased in one evening as I should have thought only a lifetime of intimate, loving association could have increased them. You are more wonderful and lovely in my eyes than you ever were before; and my pride and joy and gratitude that you should love me with such a perfect love are beyond all expression, except in some great poem which I cannot write." ~ Woodrow Wilson
33. "We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true." ~ Woodrow Wilson
34. "But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts" ~ Woodrow Wilson
35. "I come from the South and I know what war is, for I have seen its terrible wreckage and ruin. It is easy for me as President to declare war. I do not have to fight, and neither do the gentlemen on the Hill who now clamor for it. It is some poor farmer's boy, or the son of some poor widow - who will have to do the fighting and dying." ~ Woodrow Wilson
36. "We should not only use all the brains we have but all that we can borrow." ~ Woodrow Wilson
37. "A politician, a man engaged in party contests, must be an opportunist. Let us give up saying that word as if it contained a slur. If you want to win in party action, I take it for granted that you want to lure the majority to your side. I never heard of any man in his senses who was fishing for a minority." ~ Woodrow Wilson
38. "If a man is a fool, the best thing is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking." ~ Woodrow Wilson
39. "I have found one can never get anything in life that is worth while without fighting for it." ~ Woodrow Wilson
40. "If the colored people made a mistake in voting for me, they ought to correct it." ~ Woodrow Wilson
41. "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 forgo the privilege of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks." ~ Woodrow Wilson
42. "Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it." ~ Woodrow Wilson
43. "War isn't declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely." ~ Woodrow Wilson
44. "Only peace between equals can last." ~ Woodrow Wilson
45. "The man swimming against the stream knows the strenth of it." ~ Woodrow Wilson
46. "[o]f course like every other man of intelligence and education I do believe in organic evolution. It surprises me that at this late date such questions should be raised." ~ Woodrow Wilson
47. "I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the civilized world - no longer a Government by free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men." ~ Woodrow Wilson
48. "We can afford to exercise the self-restraint of a really great nation which realizes its own strength and scorns to misuse it." ~ Woodrow Wilson
49. "We have begun a fight that it may be will take many a generation to complete...but you know that men are not put into this world to go the path of ease; they are put into this world to go the path of pain and struggle...We have given our lives to the enterprise, and that is richer and the moral is greater." ~ Woodrow Wilson
50. "A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what we have been about." ~ Woodrow Wilson

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