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" If you think too much about being re-elected, it is very difficult to be worth re-electing. "
Woodrow Wilson
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" 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. "
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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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" Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose. "
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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. "
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" If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience. "
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" 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. "
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" Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign. "
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" The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty. "
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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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" 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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" America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us. "
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" I will not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with respect of the past. "
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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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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" The method of political science is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions. "
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" 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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" 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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" There are blessed intervals when I forget by one means or another that I am President of the United States. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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