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Woodrow Wilson Quotes - Page 10

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You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape.

You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape.

Twilight, Experience, Noon

Woodrow Wilson (1952). “Woodrow Wilson's own story”

No peace can last, or ought to last, which does not recognize and accept the principle that governments derive all their just powers from the consent of the governed, and that no right anywhere exists to hand peoples from sovereignty to sovereignty as if they were property.

Government, Hands, Principles

Woodrow Wilson, Mario R. DiNunzio (2006). “Woodrow Wilson: Essential Writings and Speeches of the Scholar-president”, p.394, NYU Press

Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.

Government, Democracy, Principles

Woodrow Wilson, Howard Seavoy Leach (1970). “The Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson: Authorized Ed”

What is at the heart of all national problems? It is that we have seen the hand of material interest sometimes about to close upon our dearest rights and possessions.

Heart, Rights, Hands

Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.19, The Minerva Group, Inc.

A nation is as great, and only as great, as her rank and file.

Files, Nations

Woodrow Wilson (2012). “The New Freedom A Call For the Emancipation of the Generous Energies of a People”, p.59, tredition

Government is not a warfare of interests.

Government, Warfare, Interest

Woodrow Wilson, Albert Fried (1965). “A Day of Dedication”, New York : Macmillan [1965]

Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.

Inspirational, Leadership, Vision

Woodrow Wilson, Ronald J. Pestritto (2005). “Woodrow Wilson: The Essential Political Writings”, p.224, Lexington Books

The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.

4th Of July, Usa Patriotism, Revolution

United States. President (1913-1921 : Wilson), Woodrow Wilson (1918). “President Wilson ̓state papers and addresses”

One cool judgement is worth a thousand hasty councils.

Success, Judgement, Thousand

Every great man of business has got somewhere a touch of the idealist in him.

Business, Men, Idealist

Woodrow Wilson (1972). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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 blood to vindicate those rights, and then, in the corner, a prediction of the blue serene into which every nation may swim which stands for these great things.

Thinking, Rights, Blue

Woodrow Wilson, Ray Stannard Baker, Howard Seavoy Leach (1926). “The Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson: College and state; educational literary and political papers (1875-1913)”

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

Military, Believe, Democracy

Woodrow Wilson (1916). “Wit and Wisdom of Woodrow Wilson: Extracts from the Public Speeches of the Leader and Interpreter of American Democracy, with Masterpieces of Eloquence”, Best Books

The things that the flag stands for were created by the experiences of a great people. Everything that it stands for was written by their lives. The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.

Patriotic, People, Patriotism

May it not suffice for me to say ... that of course like every other man of intelligence and education I do believe in organic evolution. It surprises me that at this late date such questions should be raised.

Believe, Men, Presidential

Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link (1993). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson”

Once lead this people into war, and they'll forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance. To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fiber of our national life, infecting Congress, the courts, the policeman on the beat, the man in the street.

War, Fighting, Men

Woodrow Wilson (2015). “Wilson, Volume V: Campaigns for Progressivism and Peace, 1916-1917”, p.399, Princeton University Press

There is no indispensable man. The government will not collapse and go to pieces if any one of the gentlemen who are seeking to be entrusted with its guidance should be left at home.

Home, Men, Gentleman

Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1978). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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.

Heart, Patriotic, Men

Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.30, The Minerva Group, Inc.

Liberty is its own reward.

Freedom, Government, Liberty

Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1978). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

No nation is fit to sit in judgement upon any other nation.

Presidential, Judgement, Fit

Speech in New York, 20 Apr. 1915, in Selected Addresses (1918) p. 79

We are expected to put the utmost energy, of every power that we have, into the service of our fellow men, never sparing ourselves, not condescending to think of what is going to happen to ourselves, but ready, if need be, to go to the utter length of self-sacrifice.

Sacrifice, Men, Thinking

Woodrow Wilson (2012). “President Wilson's Addresses”, p.95, tredition

My own ideals for the university are those of a genuine democracy and serious scholarship. These two, indeed, seem to go together.

Two, Democracy, Together

Our object now, as then, is to vindicate the principles of peace and justice in the life of the world as against selfish and autocratic power, and to set up among the really free and self-governed peoples of the world such a concert of purpose and of action as will henceforth insure the observance of those principles.

Freedom, Selfish, Justice

Woodrow Wilson, Ronald J. Pestritto (2005). “Woodrow Wilson: The Essential Political Writings”, p.254, Lexington Books

I am not one of those who have the least anxiety about the triumph of the principles I have stood for. I have seen fools resist Providence before, and I have seen their destruction, as will come upon these again, utter destruction and contempt. That we shall prevail is as sure as that God reigns.

Anxiety, Reign, Fool

Woodrow Wilson (1956). “The Wilson reader”

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.

Art, Truth, Essentials

Woodrow Wilson (2012). “Congressional Government: A Study in American Politics”, p.109, Courier Corporation

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.

Educational, Lying, Men

Woodrow Wilson (1896). “Mere Literature, and Other Essays”

Born: December 28, 1856 - February 3, 1924
Occupation: 28th U.S. President

Quotes: 459

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