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Woodrow Wilson [1856-1924] American

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President, 28th U.S. President

Thomas Woodrow Wilson, better known as Woodrow Wilson, was an American politician and academic who served as the 28th President of the United States from 1913 to 1921.

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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.	Hope, Motivational	101
The method of political science is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions.	Life, Science	102
Tell me what is right and I will fight for it.		103
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.	History, Strength	104
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.	Freedom, Government, History, Power	105
Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.		106
America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal - to discover and maintain liberty among men.	Men	107
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.	Government	108
If you want to make enemies, try to change something.	Change	109
One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.	Cool	110
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.	Equality, Great, Men, Women	111
A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.	Politics	112
The seed of revolution is repression.		113
I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.	Intelligence	114
Never attempt to murder a man who is committing suicide.		115
There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.	Great, History	116
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.	Work	117
Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.		118
In the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.	God	119
You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape.	Experience	120
A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.	Government, Men	121
Property as compared with humanity, as compared with the red blood in the American people, must take second place, not first place.		122
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.	Men	123
Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.	Sports	124
The history of liberty is a history of resistance.	History	125
The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.		126
Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.	Business	201
That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.		202
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.	Friendship, Politics, Teacher	203
I will not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with respect of the past.	Respect	204
I have come slowly into possession of such powers as I have. I receive the opinions of my day. I do not conceive them. But I receive them into a vivid mind.		205
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.		206
If you think too much about being re-elected, it is very difficult to be worth re-electing.		207
I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.		208
There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.	Religion	209
Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.	Leadership	210
My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business, that it is something we owe to each other to understand and discuss with absolute frankness.	Politics	211
Generally young men are regarded as radicals. This is a popular misconception. The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life.		212
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.	Education, Science	213
The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.		214
I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.		215
Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.	Politics, Science	216
If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.	Pet	217
A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.	Politics	218
The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.		219
Interest does not tie nations together; it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.	Sympathy	220
Princeton is no longer a thing for Princeton men to please themselves with. Princeton is a thing with which Princeton men must satisfy the country.		221
Neutrality is a negative word. It does not express what America ought to feel. We are not trying to keep out of trouble; we are trying to preserve the foundations on which peace may be rebuilt.		222
Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.		223
The world is not looking for servants, there are plenty of these, but for masters, men who form their purposes and then carry them out, let the consequences be what they may.		224
The question of armaments, whether on land or sea, is the most immediately and intensely practical question connected with the future fortunes of nations and of mankind.		225
If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it.		226
As compared with the college politician, the real article seems like an amateur.		301
By 'radical,' I understand one who goes too far; by 'conservative', one who does not go far enough; by 'reactionary', one who won't go at all.		302
It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.		303
He is not a true man of the world who knows only the present fashions of it.		304
My own ideals for the university are those of a genuine democracy and serious scholarship. These two, indeed, seem to go together.		305
I am not sure that it is of the first importance that you should be happy. Many an unhappy man has been of deep service to himself and to the world.		306
Every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells, and when I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is growing or swelling.		307
There are blessed intervals when I forget by one means or another that I am President of the United States.		308
So far as the colleges go, the sideshows are swallowing up the circus.		309
When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.		310
What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.		311
The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous, event of our generation.		312
America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.		313
Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.		314

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