Woodrow Wilson ✓

(1856–1924) university teacher

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[Wikidata] president of the United States from 1913 to 1921 (1856–1924)... | [Wikipedia] Thomas Woodrow Wilson was the 28th president of the United States, serving from 1913 to 1921. He was the only Democrat to serve as president during the Progressive Era, when Republicans dominated the presidency and legislative branches. As president, Wilson made significant economic reforms and led

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• Energy in a nation is like sap in a tree; it rises from bottom up. Bottom
• Politics is a war of causes; a joust of principles. Government is too serious a matter to admit of meaningless courtesies. Admit
• Tolerance is an admirable intellectual gift; but it is of little worth in politics. Admirable
• Never murder a man when he's busy committing suicide. Busy
• I want the people to love me, but I suppose they never will. Inspirational
• There is no more subtle dissolvent of morals than sentimentality. Inspirational
• There is something better, if possible, that a man can give than his life. That is his living spirit to a service that is not… Better
• The only thing that saves the world is the little handful of disinterested men that are in it. Disinterested
• No task, rightly done, is truly private. It is part of the world s work. Part
• To be free is not necessarily to be wise. Wisdom comes with counsel, with the frank and free conference of untrammeled men united in the… Common
• When they the American soldiers came, they found fit comrades for their courage and their devotion.... Joining hands with them, the men of America gave… All
• Tell me what is right and I will fight for it. Fight
• 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. Country
• If you wish your children to be Christians you must really take the trouble to be Christian yourselves. Those are the only terms upon which… Children
• There's not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else's brains. Been
• The law that will work is merely the summing up in legislative form of the moral judgment that the community has already reached. Already Reached
• The white men were roused by a mere instinct of self-preservation—until at last there had sprung into existence a great Ku Klux Klan, a veritable… Country
• My urgent advice to you would be, not only always to think first of America, but always, also, to think first of humanity. You do… Advice
• I'm a vague, conjunctured personality, more made up of opinions and academic prepossessions than of human traits and red corpuscles. Academic
• One of the proofs of the divinity of our gospel is the preaching it has survived. Divinity
• All things come to him who waits All
• Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God. God
• When I think of the flag.... I see alternate strips of parchment upon which are written the rights of liberty and justice, and stripes of… Alternate
• 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,… Achievement
• 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… Been

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