American - President | December 28, 1856 - February 3, 1924
It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.
Woodrow Wilson
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As compared with the college politician, the real article seems like an amateur.
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He is not a true man of the world who knows only the present fashions of it.
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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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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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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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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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America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal - to discover and maintain liberty among men.
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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 growing or swelling.
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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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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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When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.
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