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" Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose. "
Woodrow Wilson
Control
Golf
Sports
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" The seed of revolution is repression. "
Woodrow Wilson
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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. "
Woodrow Wilson
Conservative
College
Past
" I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow. "
Woodrow Wilson
I Can
Intelligence
Only
" A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt. "
Woodrow Wilson
Doubt
Politics
Who
" Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness. "
Woodrow Wilson
Caution
Confidential
Selfishness
" The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation. "
Woodrow Wilson
American
Beginning
Revolution
" 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. "
Woodrow Wilson
Go
Understand
Conservative
" 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. "
Woodrow Wilson
Poor
Nation
Rich
" The history of liberty is a history of resistance. "
Woodrow Wilson
Liberty
History
Resistance
" 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. "
Woodrow Wilson
Hot
Great
Wrath
" 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. "
Woodrow Wilson
America
Trying
Peace
" Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles. "
Woodrow Wilson
Government
Principles
Democracy
" 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. "
Woodrow Wilson
Future
Connected
Question
" 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
Brave
Challenge
Men
" When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing. "
Woodrow Wilson
Office
Watch
Growing
" Never attempt to murder a man who is committing suicide. "
Woodrow Wilson
Who
Suicide
Never
" A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits. "
Woodrow Wilson
Politics
Man
Just
" It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true. "
Woodrow Wilson
Like
Writing
True
" 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
Life
Some
Friend
" As compared with the college politician, the real article seems like an amateur. "
Woodrow Wilson
Politician
Seems
Like
" The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty. "
Woodrow Wilson
Democracy
Political
Peace
" 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. "
Woodrow Wilson
Science
Progress
Society
" There are blessed intervals when I forget by one means or another that I am President of the United States. "
Woodrow Wilson
Blessed
I Am
President
" If you think too much about being re-elected, it is very difficult to be worth re-electing. "
Woodrow Wilson
Think
Too Much
Worth
" I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose. "
Woodrow Wilson
Win
Day
Lose
" 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. "
Woodrow Wilson
People
World
I Am
" What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind. "
Woodrow Wilson
Consent
Seek
Organized
" There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed. "
Woodrow Wilson
Human
Good
Work
" 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. "
Woodrow Wilson
Politics
My Life
Life
" 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. "
Woodrow Wilson
Bread
Worship
Prayer