
Top 100 Quotes About Woodrow Wilson
#1. As a matter of fact and experience, the more power is divided the more irresponsible it becomes.
Woodrow Wilson
#2. The university president who cashiered every professor unwilling to support Woodrow Wilson for the first vacancy in the
Trinity ...
H.L. Mencken
#3. I have rather a strange objection to talking from the back platform of a train ... It changes too often. It moves around and shifts its ground too often. I like a platform that stays put.
Woodrow Wilson
#6. To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fibre of national life ...
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#7. 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 interest.
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#8. We are intensely proud of their noble record and are glad to have had the whole world see how irresistible they are in their might when a cause which America holds dear is at stake. The whole nation has reason to be proud of them.
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#9. One cool judgement is worth a thousand hasty councils.
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#10. I believe in human liberty as I believe in the wine of life. There is no salvation for men in the pitiful condescension of industrial masters. Guardians have no place in a land of freemen.
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#11. A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.
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#12. I do not want to live under a philanthropy. I do not want to be taken care of by the government ... We do not want a benevolent government. We want a free and a just government.
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#13. To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.
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#15. The roll of honor consists of the names of meant who have squared their conduct by ideals of duty.
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#16. 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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#17. To think that I, the son ofthe manse, should be able to help restore the Holy Land to its people.
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#18. 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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#19. America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness which are derived from the revelations of the Holy Scripture.
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#20. After 'Lindbergh,' my publisher asked whom I wanted to write about next. I said, 'There's one idea I've been carrying in my hip pocket for 35 years. It's Woodrow Wilson.'
A. Scott Berg
#21. No one who has read official documents needs to be told how easy it is to conceal the essential truth under the apparently candid and all- disclosing phrases of a voluminous and particularizing report.
Woodrow Wilson
#22. 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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#23. Surely a man has come to himself only when he has found the best that is in him, and has satisfied his heart with the highest achievement he is fit for.
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#25. So far as religion is concerned, argument is adjourned.
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#26. I could see now that a literary education did not fit one for the popular novelist's trade.Once you had started using words like flavicomous or acroamatic, because you liked the sound of them, you were lost.
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#27. The sum of the whole matter is this - our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually.
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#28. He is not a true man of the world who knows only the present fashions of it.
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#29. Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.
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#30. All the extraordinary men I have known were extraordinary in their own estimation.
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#31. Thanks to Progressives such as Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, we are now living under a system where the president is forced to step in to stop a regulatory agency from promulgating regulations that Congress refused to enact.
Andrew P. Napolitano
#32. Woodrow Wilson later wrote: "The Constitution of the United States has been made under the dominion of the Newtonian theory.
Andrew Thomas
#33. When you come into the presence of a leader of men, you know you have come into the presence of fire; that it is best not incautiously to touch that man; that there is something that makes it dangerous to cross him. - WOODROW WILSON
Robert A. Caro
#34. No society is renewed from the top and every society is renewed from the bottom.
Woodrow Wilson
#35. Progressiveness means not standing still when everything else is moving.
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#36. Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.
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#37. 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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#38. I must beg you to indulge me in the matter of hyphens ... You will find that I have marked out a great many in the proofs. We arein danger of Germanizing our printing by using them so much, and I have a very decided preference in the matter.
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#39. The light that shined upon the summit now seems almost to shine at our feet.
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#40. No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.
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#41. There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
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#42. Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
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#43. No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acquiescence.
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#44. If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. Character is a by-product, and any man who devotes himself to its cultivation in his own case will become a selfish prig.
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#45. The welfare, the happiness, the energy and spirit of the men and women who do the daily workis the underlying necessity of all prosperity ... There can be nothing wholesome unless their life is wholesome; there can be no contentment unless they are contented.
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#46. There was a time when corporations played a minor part in our business affairs, but now they play the chief part, and most men are the servants of corporations.
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#47. One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
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#48. My grandparents moved to Texas from the South after the U.S. Civil War and settled on small farms in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area.
Robert Woodrow Wilson
#50. The princes among us are those who forget themselves and serve others.
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#51. The rule for every man is, not to depend on the education which other men have prepared for him-not even to consent to it; but to strive to see things as they are, and to be himself as he is. Defeat lies in self-surrender.
Woodrow Wilson
#52. As compared with the college politician, the real article seems like an amateur.
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#53. The literary gift is a very dangerous gift to possess if you are not telling the truth, and I would a great deal rather, for my part, have a man stumble in his speech than to feel he was so exceedingly smooth that he had better be watched both day and night.
Woodrow Wilson
#54. It recognizes no morality but a sham morality meant for deceit, no honor even among thieves and of a thievish sort, no force but physical force, no intellectual power but cunning, no disgrace but failure, no crime but stupidity.
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#55. Back a hundred years ago, especially around Woodrow Wilson, what happened in this country is we took freedom and we chopped it into pieces.
Ron Paul
#56. A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
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#57. 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 empire of the South, to protect the Southern country.
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#58. It is ... particularly true of constitutional government that its atmosphere is opinion ... It does not remain fixed in any unchanging form, but grows with the growth and is altered with the change of the nation's needs and purposes.
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#59. 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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#60. The truth is we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless.
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#61. Have you thought of the sufferings of Armenia? You poured out your money to help succor the Armenians after they suffered; now set your strength so that they shall never suffer again.
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#62. Some people have a large circle of friends while others have only friends that they like.
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#63. It would be the irony of fate if my administration had to deal chiefly with foreign affairs.
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#64. It is easier to move a cemetery than to change a curriculum.
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#65. We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.
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#66. No man can rationally live, worship, or love his neighbour on an empty stomach.
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#68. The shadows that now lie dark upon our path will soon be dispelled and we shall walk with the light all about us if we but be true to ourselves.
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#69. 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.
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#70. If you would be a leader of men you must lead your own generation, not the next. Your playing must be good now, while the play ison the boards and the audience in the seats ... It will not get you the repute of a good actor to have excellencies discovered in you afterwards.
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#71. Conservatism is the policy of make no change and consult your grandmother when in doubt.
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#73. 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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#74. We want the spirit of America to be efficient; we want American character to be efficient; we want American character to display itself in what I may, perhaps, be allowed to call spiritual efficiency - clear disinterested thinking and fearless action
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#75. The history of liberty is the history of limitations on the power of government, not the increase of it. When we resist, therefore, the concentration of power, we are resisting the processes of death, because concentration of power is what always precedes the destruction of human liberties.
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#76. High society is for those who have stopped working and no longer have anything important to do.
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#77. The only place in the world that nothing has to be explained to me is the South.
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#78. If Germany won it would change the course of our civilization and make the United States a military nation [and] it would check his policy for a better international ethical code
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#79. Any man that resists the present tides that run in the world, will find himself thrown upon a shore so high and barren that it will seem he has been separated from his human kind forever.
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#80. The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates.
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#81. War isn't declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.
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#82. A man's rootage is more important than his leafage.
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#84. There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight.
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#85. Scholarship cannot do without literature ... It needs literature to float it, to set it current, to authenticate it to all the race, to get it out of closets and into the brains of men who stir abroad.
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#86. Men are not put into this world to go the path of ease, they are put into this world to go the path of pain and struggle.
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#87. Whate'er my doom;
It cannot be unhappy: God hath given me
The boon of resignation.
Woodrow Wilson
#88. I used to be a lawyer, but now I am a reformed character.
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#89. And while you bring all countries with you, you come with a purpose of leaving all other countries behind you - bringing what is best of their spirit, but not looking over your shoulders and seeking to perpetuate what you intended to leave behind in them.
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#90. 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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#91. There is no more subtle dissolvent of morals than sentimentality.
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#92. Your enlightenment depends on the company you keep. You do not know the world until you know the men who have possessed it and tried its wares before you were ever given your brief run upon it.
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#93. So far as the colleges go, the sideshows are swallowing up the circus.
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#95. His [the President's] office is anything he has the sagacity and force to make it.
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#96. I confess my belief in the common man ... The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it ... The man who is in the melee knows what blows are being struck and what blood is being drawn.
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#97. Tolerance is an admirable intellectual gift; but it is of little worth in politics.
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#99. No government has ever been beneficent when the attitude of government was that it was taking care of the people. The only freedom consists in the people taking care of the government.
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#100. Woodrow Wilson intimate Edward House urged that his boss never first be approached by argument. Instead, the President could be made most receptive by laying a groundwork of 'common hatred.
David Pietrusza
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