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Woodrow Wilson Quotes - Page 18

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Bagehot did what so many thousand of young graduates before him had done,--he studied for the bar; and then, having prepared himself to practise law, followed another large body of young men in deciding to abandon it.

Bagehot did what so many thousand of young graduates before him had done,--he studied for the bar; and then, having prepared himself to practise law, followed another large body of young men in deciding to abandon it.

Men, Law, Bars

Woodrow Wilson (1969). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson”

The way to be patriotic in America is not only to love America, but to love the duty that lies nearest to our hand, and to know that in performing it we are serving our country.

Country, Lying, Patriotic

Woodrow Wilson (2012). “President Wilson's Addresses”, p.109, tredition

No man can be just who is not free.

Men, Justice

Woodrow Wilson, Ollie M. James (1912). “Speech of Governor Wilson Accepting the Democratic Nomination for President of the United States: Together with the Speech of Notification Delivered by Hon. Ollie M. James at Seagirt, N.J., August 7, 1912”

A right is worth fighting for only when it can be put into operation.

Freedom, Fighting, Liberty

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

... so far as religion is concerned, argument is adjourned.

Argument, Concerned

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.

Country, Leaving, Over You

Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.86, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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.

Heart, Men, Excellence

Woodrow Wilson (1929). “When a Man Comes to Himself”, p.8, Library of Alexandria

We are provincials no longer. The tragic events of the 30 months of vital turmoil through which we have just passed have made us citizens of the world. There can be no turning back.

Months, Events, Citizens

Some of the greatest and most lasting effects of genuine oratory have gone forth from secluded lecture desks into the hearts of quiet groups of students.

Heart, Groups, Gone

Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1968). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

There are times when words seem empty and only actions seem great. Such a time has come, and in the Providence of God America will once more have an opportunity to show the world that she was born to save mankind.

Opportunity, America, World

The interesting and inspiring thing about America is that she asks nothing for herself except what she has a right to ask for humanity itself.

America, Interesting, Humanity

Woodrow Wilson (1913). “Addresses, Messages and Speeches, 1897-”

It must be a peace without victory

Victory

Address to Senate on essential terms of peace in Europe, 22 Jan. 1917

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.

Moving, Talking, Strange

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.

Taken, Government, Care

The only place in the world that nothing has to be explained to me is the South.

Southern, World, Places In The World

It is not men that interest or disturb me primarily; it is ideas. Ideas live; men die.

Men, Ideas, Interest

The natural man inevitably rebels against mathematics, a mild form of torture that could only be learned by painful processes of drill.

Men, Rebel, Painful

The spirit of [William] Penn will not be stayed. You cannot set limits to such knightly adventurers. After their own day is gone their spirits stalk the world, carrying inspiration everywhere that they go and reminding men of the lineage, the fine lineage, of those who have sought justice and right.

Inspiration, Men, Justice

Woodrow Wilson (1978). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson”

Be militant! Be an organization that is going to do things! If you can find older men who will give you countenance and acceptableleadership, follow them; but if you cannot, organize separately and dispense with them. There are only two sorts of men to be associated with when something is to be done: Those are young men and men who never grow old.

Men, Organization, Two

Woodrow Wilson (2012). “President Wilson's Addresses”, p.133, tredition

I believe very profoundly in an over-ruling Providence, and I do not fear that any real plans can be thrown off the track. It maynot be intended that I shall be President--but that would not break my heart.

Real, Believe, Heart

Woodrow Wilson, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1977). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

Statesmen have to bend to the collective will of their peoples or be broken.

Broken, Collectives, Statesmen

Every one at the bottom of his heart cherishes vanity; even the toad thinks himself good-looking,--"rather tawny perhaps, but look at his eye!

Heart, Eye, Thinking

Great statesmen seem to direct and rule by a sort of power to put themselves in the place of the nation over which they are set, and may thus be said to possess the souls of poets at the same time they display the coarser sense and the more vulgar sagacity of practical men of business.

Men, Soul, Vision

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

Man is much more than a 'rational being' and lives more by sympathies and impressions than by conclusions. It darkens his eyes and dries up the wells of his humanity to be forever in search of doctrine. We need wholesome, experiencing natures, I dare affirm, much more than we need sound reasoning.

Eye, Men, Forever

Woodrow Wilson (2005). “On Being Human”, p.20, Cosimo, Inc.

Government is merely an attempt to express the conscience of everybody, the average conscience of the nation, in the rules that everybody is commanded to obey. That is all it is.

Government, Average, Nations

Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1980). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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

Quotes: 459

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