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Woodrow Wilson

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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.

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02Undated

The men who act stand nearer to the mass of man than the men who write and it is in their hands that new thought gets its translation into the crude language of deeds.

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03Undated

Some Americans need hyphens in their names because only part of them has come over but when the whole man has come over heart and thought and all the hyphen drops of its own weight out of his name.

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04Undated

The way to stop financial "joy-riding" is to arrest the chauffeur not the automobile.

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05Undated

If you think about what you ought to do for other people your character will take care of itself.

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06Undated

To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.

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07Undated

If you want to make enemies try to change something.

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When Andrew Jackson died someone asked a friend if he thought Old Hickory would go to heaven. 'He will if he wants to ' was the reply. On his death bed Disraeli declined a visit from Queen Victoria. 'No it is better not' he said 'she would only ask me to take a message to Albert.' I am a broken machine. I am ready to go.

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09Undated

The world must be made safe for democracy.

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10Undated

I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being.

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11Undated

All things come to him who waits- provided he knows what he is waiting for.

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12Undated

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

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You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.

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A friend of mine says that 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 swelling or growing.

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No man ever saw a government. I live in the midst of the Government of the United States but I never saw the Government of the United States.

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16Undated

Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

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17Undated

A man's rootage is more important than his leafage.

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18Undated

I not only use all the brains I have but all I can borrow.

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19Undated

One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty councils. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.

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When you come into the presence of a leader of men you know that you have come into the presence of fire - that it is best not uncautiously to touch that man - that there is something that makes it dangerous to cross him.

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21Undated

The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty. We have no selfish ends to serve. We desire no conquest no domination. We seek no indemnities for ourselves no material compensation for the sacrifices we shall freely give. We are but one of the champions of the rights of mankind. We shall be satisfied when those rights have been made as secure as the faith and freedom of nations can make them.

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22Undated

1 have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty and business liberty and every other kind of liberty in the phrase that is common in the sporting world "A free field and no favor."

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23Undated

Nothing was ever done so systematically as nothing is being done now.

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24Undated

I'm a vague conjunctured personality more made up of opinions and academic prepossessions than of human traits and red corpuscles.

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