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Tolerance is an admirable intellectual gift; but it is of little worth in politics.

Tolerance is an admirable intellectual gift; but it is of little worth in politics.

Tolerance, Intellectual, Littles

Woodrow Wilson, Ray Stannard Baker, Howard Seavoy Leach (1925). “The Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson: College and state; educational literary and political papers (1875-1913)”

Settlements may be temporary, but the action of the nations in the interest of peace and justice must be permanent. We can set up permanent processes. We may not be able to set up permanent decisions.

Peace, Justice, Decision

Woodrow Wilson, Mario R. DiNunzio (2006). “Woodrow Wilson: Essential Writings and Speeches of the Scholar-president”, p.408, NYU Press

I am one who fights without a knack of hoping confidentlysimply a Scotch-Irishman who will not be conquered.

Fighting, Scotch, Knack

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.

Believe, Wine, Men

Woodrow Wilson (1913). “Works: ¬The new freedom of call for the emancipation of the generous energies of a people”

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.

Mind, Vivid, Opinion

Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link (1888). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson”

They [the children] live in a world of delightful imagination; they pursue persons and objects that never existed; they make an Argosy laden with gold out of a floating butterfly,--and these stupid [grown-up people] try to translate these things into uninteresting facts.

Children, Stupid, Butterfly

Death, like the quintessence of otherness, is for others.

Quintessence, Otherness

We shall not, I believe, be obliged to alter our policy of watchful waiting.

Believe, Waiting, Policy

State of the Union Address, 2 Dec. 1913

If you think too much about being re-elected, it is very difficult to be worth re-electing.

Thinking, Political, Politics

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

The legislator must be in advance of his age. Across the mind of the statesman flash ever and anon the brilliant, though partial, intimations of future events.... Something which is more than fore-sight and less than prophetic knowledge marks the statesman a peculiar being among his contemporaries.

Sight, Mind, Age

Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1994). “Papers”

Tell me what is right and I will fight for it.

Fighting

Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link (1986). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson”

All things come to him who waits

Patience, Waiting, All Things

A sure sign of an amateur is too much detail to compensate for too little life.

Details, Littles, Too Much

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, and her example, her assistance, her encouragement, has thrilled two continents in this western world with all those fine impulses which have built up human liberty on sides of the water. She stands, therefore, as an example of independence, as an example of free institutions, and as an example of disinterested international action in the main tenets of justice.

Encouragement, Self, Two

Let him [the President] once win the admiration and confidence of the country, and no other single force can withstand him, no combination of forces will easily overpower him.... If he rightly interpret the national thought and boldly insist upon it, he is irresistible; and the country never feels the zest of action so much as when the President is of such insight and caliber.

Country, Winning, Zest

Woodrow Wilson (1961). “Constitutional Government in the United States”, p.68, Transaction Publishers

Such a mind we must desire to see in a woman,--a mind that stirs without irritating you, that arouses but does not belabour, amuses and yet subtly instructs.

Women, Mind, Desire

There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.

Wrath, Tears, Hot

Woodrow Wilson, United States. President (1913-1921 : Wilson) (1924). “The messages and papers of Woodrow Wilson”

That is Gladstone, the greatest statesman that ever lived. I intend to be a statesman, too.

Ambition, Gladstone, Statesmen

Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light...

Dream, Bad Day, Sunshine

"By the Way" by Preston Williams, Xulon Press, Virginia (pp. 38-39), 2002.

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.

Running, Men, Company You Keep

Woodrow Wilson (1983). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson”

I am not willing to be drawn further into the toils. I cannot accede to the acceptance of gifts upon terms which take the educational policy of the university out of the hands of the Trustees and Faculty and permit it to be determined by those who give money.

Educational, Acceptance, Hands

Woodrow Wilson, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1975). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

His [the President's] office is anything he has the sagacity and force to make it.

Office, Political, President

Movies are like writing history with lightning.

Writing, Writing History, Lightning

This little world, this little state, this little commonwealth of our own.

College, World, Littles

Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link (1973). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson”

The soul of me is very selfish. I have gone my way after a fashion that made me the center of the plan. And you who are so individual, who are so independent a spirit, whose soul is also a kingdom, have been so loyal, so forgiving, so self-sacrificing in your willingness to live my life. Nothing but love cold have accomplished so wonderful a thing.

Fashion, Selfish, Independent

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

Quotes: 459

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