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There is no more subtle dissolvent of morals than sentimentality.

There is no more subtle dissolvent of morals than sentimentality.

Moral, Subtle, Sentimentality

Woodrow Wilson, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1974). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

The wisest thing to do with a fool is to encourage him to hire a hall and discourse to his fellow-citizens . Nothing chills nonsense like exposure to the air.

Air, Law, Citizens

Constitutional Government in the United States ch. 2 (1908)

Generally young men are regarded as radicals. This is a popular misconception. The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life.

Past, College, Men

Speech to Inter-Church Conference on Federation, NewYork, N.Y., 19 Nov. 1905

No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acquiescence.

Peace, Patriotic, Men

Woodrow Wilson, Mario R. DiNunzio (2006). “Woodrow Wilson: Essential Writings and Speeches of the Scholar-president”, p.54, NYU Press

Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the sovereignty of self-governing people.

Self, America, People

Woodrow Wilson (1916). “Addresses of President Wilson, January 27-February 3, 1916”

When you come into the presence of a leader of men, you know that you have come into the presence of fire - that it is best not uncautiously to touch that man - that there is something that makes it dangerous to cross him.

Men, Fire, Leader

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.

Suffering, Armenia, Helping

Woodrow Wilson (1919). “Addresses of President Wilson: Boston, Mass., February 24, 1919. New York, N. Y., March 4, 1919”

The profession I chose was politics; the profession I entered was law. I entered the one because I thought it would lead to the other.

Law, Profession

Woodrow Wilson (1965). “The Political Thought of Woodrow Wilson”

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

Real, College, Politician

Whate'er my doom; It cannot be unhappy: God hath given me The boon of resignation.

Unhappy, Given, Boon

My hope is ... that we may recover ... something of a renewal of that vision of the law with which men may be supposed to have started out with in the old days of the oracles, who communed with the intimations of divinity.

Men, Law, Vision

Woodrow Wilson (2012). “President Wilson's Addresses”, p.127, tredition

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.

Swimming, Blow, Men

Woodrow Wilson (2012). “The New Freedom A Call For the Emancipation of the Generous Energies of a People”, p.60, tredition

Justice has nothing to do with expediency. Justice has nothing to do with any temporary standard whatever. It is rooted and grounded in the fundamental instincts of humanity.

Justice, Humanity, Fundamentals

Woodrow Wilson, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1981). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.

Friendship, Real Friends, Equality

Woodrow Wilson, Mario R. DiNunzio (2006). “Woodrow Wilson: Essential Writings and Speeches of the Scholar-president”, p.381, NYU Press

War is only a sort of dramatic representation, a sort of dramatic symbol of a thousand forms of duty. I fancy that it is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shooting at you.

War, Men, Shooting

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

It is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shouting at you.

Men, Criticism, Shouting

The flag is a flag of liberty of opinion as well as of political liberty.

Carpe Diem, Political, Liberty

Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1971). “Papers: Edited by Arthur S. Link and Others”

A man is not as big as his belief in himself; he is as big as the number of persons who believe in him.

Believe, Greatness, Men

Woodrow Wilson, Mario R. DiNunzio (2006). “Woodrow Wilson: Essential Writings and Speeches of the Scholar-president”, p.355, NYU Press

...to make the world safe for democracy.

Strong Women, Tyrants, Differences

Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1985). “Papers: Edited by Arthur S. Link and Others”

Politics is a war of causes; a joust of principles. Government is too serious a matter to admit of meaningless courtesies.

War, Government, Principles

Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1966). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

Some people have a large circle of friends while others have only friends that they like.

Circles, People, Circle Of Friends

Only free peoples can hold their purpose and their honor steady to a common end, and prefer the interests of mankind to any narrow interest of their own.

Freedom, Honor, Purpose

War Message, delivered 2 April 1917

If you would be a leader of men, you must lead your own generation, not the next.

Men, Leader, Would Be

Woodrow Wilson, Ronald J. Pestritto (2005). “Woodrow Wilson: The Essential Political Writings”, p.216, Lexington Books

The success of a party means little except when the nation is using that party for a large and definite purpose. No one can mistake the purpose for which the nation now seeks to use the Democratic party. It seeks to use it to interpret a change in its own plans and point of view.

Party, Mean, Views

"Woodrow Wilson: Essential Writings and Speeches of the Scholar-president".

It is imperative that we should not only master them, but also act upon them, and act very definitely.

Should, Masters

"The Papers of Woodrow Wilson".

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

Quotes: 459

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