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The seed of revolution is repression. ↗

— 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. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

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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. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

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Interest does not tie nations together; it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

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

— Woodrow Wilson

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As compared with the college politician, the real article seems like an amateur. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

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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. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

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He is not a true man of the world who knows only the present fashions of it. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

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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. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

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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. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

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