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" America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us. "
Woodrow Wilson
Only
America
Something
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" Property as compared with humanity, as compared with the red blood in the American people, must take second place, not first place. "
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" 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. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership. "
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" 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. "
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" Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose. "
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" If you think too much about being re-elected, it is very difficult to be worth re-electing. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" Interest does not tie nations together; it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them. "
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" 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. "
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" My own ideals for the university are those of a genuine democracy and serious scholarship. These two, indeed, seem to go together. "
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" 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. "
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World
" As compared with the college politician, the real article seems like an amateur. "
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" 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. "
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Past
" If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it. "
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Men
Government
" It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true. "
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Writing
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" The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people. "
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Ring
People
" He is not a true man of the world who knows only the present fashions of it. "
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" When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing. "
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