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Woodrow Wilson Quotes - Page 16

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Politics is a war of causes; a joust of principles.

Politics is a war of causes; a joust of principles.

War, Presidential, Principles

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

...it would be a mistake...to ascribe to Roman legal conceptions an undivided sway over the development of law and institutions during the Middle Ages... The Laws of Moses as well as the laws of Rome contributed suggestions and impulse to the men and institutions which were to prepare the modern world; and if we could have but eyes to see... we should readily discover how very much besides religion we owe to the Jew.

Mistake, Eye, Men

From the dim morning hours of history when the father was king and priest down to this modern time of history's high noon when nations stand forth full grown and self-governed, the law of coherence and continuity in political development has suffered no serious breach.

Morning, Kings, Father

Woodrow Wilson (1895). “The State: Elements of Historical and Practical Politics. A Sketch of Institutional History and Administration”

I have no happy fairyland vision that she can win.

Winning, Vision

There is no cause half so sacred as the cause of the people. There is no idea so uplifting as the idea of the service of humanity.

Trust, Uplifting, Ideas

Woodrow Wilson (1956). “A Crossroads of Freedom: The 1912 Campaign Speeches”

But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts

Heart, Fighting, Small Nations

Address to Joint Session of Congress asking for declaration of war, 2 Apr. 1917

The question of armaments, whether on land or sea, is the most immediately and intensely practical question connected with the future fortunes of nations and of mankind.

Sea, Land, Fortune

Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.177, The Minerva Group, Inc.

The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous, event of our generation.

Government, Our Generation, People

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

It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.

Regret, Writing, Writing History

Attributed in Scribner's Magazine, Nov. 1937. This is the earliest documented evidence for this quotation, and it appears unlikely to be authentic. Marjorie Brown King, the last survivor among the people at the 1915 screening, said that Wilson walked out of the room afterwards without comment. However, at least the first part of the quotation may have been associated with Wilson as early as February 1915. According to a 2004 article by Arthur Lennig, the New York American, 28 Feb. 1915, quoted B

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.

4th Of July, Heart, Patriotic

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

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.

Political, Doe, Radicalism

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

A powerful Navy we have always regarded as our proper and natural means of defense; and it has always been of defense that we have thought, never of aggression or of conquest. But who shall tell us now what sort of Navy to build? We shall take leave to be strong upon the seas, in the future as in the past; and there will be no thought of offense or provocation in that. Our ships are our natural bulwarks.

Strong, Powerful, Military

Woodrow Wilson (2012). “President Wilson's Addresses”, p.154, tredition

I have received delegations of working men who, apparently speaking with the utmost sincerity, have declared that they would regard it as a genuine hardship if they were deprived of their beer, for example.

Beer, Men, Hardship

"The papers of Woodrow Wilson".

Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.

Sports, Golf, Games

We are in the presence of a new organization of society. Our life has broken away from the past.

Past, Organization, Broken

Woodrow Wilson, Ronald J. Pestritto (2005). “Woodrow Wilson: The Essential Political Writings”, p.107, Lexington Books

The commands of democracy are as imperative as its privileges and opportunities are wide and generous. Its compulsion is upon us.

Responsibility, Opportunity, Democracy

Woodrow Wilson (2012). “President Wilson's Addresses”, p.239, tredition

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.

Writing, Men, Hands

Woodrow Wilson, Ronald J. Pestritto (2005). “Woodrow Wilson: The Essential Political Writings”, p.211, Lexington Books

I had rather be defeated in a cause that will ultimately triumph than triumph in a cause that will ultimately be defeated.

Inspirational, Success, Failure

They do not need our praise. They do not need that our admiration should sustain them. There is no immortality that is safer than theirs. We come not for their sakes but for our own, in order that we may drink at the same springs of inspiration from which they themselves drank.

Memorial Day, Spring, Inspiration

Woodrow Wilson (2012). “President Wilson's Addresses”, p.96, tredition

The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort.

Military, Honor, Comfort

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

We never found a real model (for our vision).

Real, Vision, Found

We can afford to exercise the self-restraint of a really great nation which realizes its own strength and scorns to misuse it.

Exercise, Self, Realizing

Woodrow Wilson, Mario R. DiNunzio (2006). “Woodrow Wilson: Essential Writings and Speeches of the Scholar-president”, p.385, NYU Press

An evident principleis the principle of justice to all peoples and nationalities, and their right to live on equal terms of liberty and safety with one another, whether they be strong or weak.

Strong, Equality, Safety

Woodrow Wilson, Edwin Anderson Alderman (1928). “Woodrow Wilson's Principles of Democracy: Being President Alderman's Memorial Address Delivered Before a Joint Session of American Congress, and President Woodrow Wilson's Addresses Delivered During the Period of the Great World War”

Here lies, in a "horizontal" position The "outside" case of Peter Pendulum, watch-maker. He departed this life "wound up" In hopes of being "taken in hand" by his Maker, And of being thoroughly "cleaned, repaired" and "set a-going" In the world to come.

Lying, Taken, Hands

Congress in session is Congress on public exhibition, whilst Congress in its committee-rooms is Congress at work.

Exhibitions, Rooms, Congress

Woodrow Wilson, Ronald J. Pestritto (2005). “Woodrow Wilson: the essential political writings”

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

Quotes: 459

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