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At every crisis in one's life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving.

At every crisis in one's life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving.

Cancer, Patriotic, Thinking

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

Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

God, Needs, Fear God

Our civilization cannot survive materially unless it is redeemed spiritually. It can be saved only by becoming permeated with the Spirit of Christ, and being made free and happy by practices which spring out of that spirit. Only thus can discontent be driven out and all shadows lifted from the road ahead.

Spring, Practice, Civilization

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

It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilizationitself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things we have always carried closest to our hearts.

War, Heart, Fighting

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

America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness which are derived from the revelations of the Holy Scripture.

America, Elements, Scripture

Woodrow Wilson, Mario R. DiNunzio (2006). “Woodrow Wilson: Essential Writings and Speeches of the Scholar-president”, p.59, NYU Press

Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.

Understanding, Soil, Fruit

The sum of the whole matter is this - our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually.

Civilization, Survival, Matter

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

When the representatives of "Big Business" think of the people, they do not include themselves.

Thinking, People, Bigs

Living political constitutions must be Darwinian in structure and in practice. Society is a living organism and must obey the laws of life, not of mechanics; it must develop. All that progressives ask or desire is permission-in an era when 'development,' 'evolution,' is the scientific word-to interpret the Constitution according to the Darwinian principle; all they ask is recognition of the fact that a nation is a living thing and not a machine.

Law, Practice, Political

Woodrow Wilson, Ronald J. Pestritto (2005). “Woodrow Wilson: The Essential Political Writings”, p.121, Lexington Books

There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.

Peace, War, Power

Woodrow Wilson (2015). “Wilson, Volume V: Campaigns for Progressivism and Peace, 1916-1917”, p.265, Princeton University Press

If the colored people made a mistake in voting for me, they ought to correct it.

Mistake, People, Voting

Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1979). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

Every people has a right to choose the sovereignty under which they shall live.

People, Presidential, Sovereignty

Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.124, The Minerva Group, Inc.

In fundamental theory socialism and democracy are almost if not quite one and the same. They both rest at bottom upon the absolute right of the community to determine its own destiny and that of its members. Men as communities are supreme over men as individuals. Limits of wisdom and convenience to the public control there may be: limits of principle there are, upon strict analysis, none.

Destiny, Men, Rights

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

That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.

Kings, Cynical, Democracy

Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link (1976). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson”

What every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence.

Lying, Men, Self

Woodrow Wilson (1915). “When a man comes to himself”, p.35, Рипол Классик

No man ever saw a government. I live in the midst of the Government of the United States, but I never saw the Government of the United States.

Men, Saws, United States

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

The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.

Father, Gentleman, Use

Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.49, The Minerva Group, Inc.

It must be a peace without victory... Victory would mean peace forced upon the loser, a victor's terms imposed upon the vanquished. It would be accepted in humiliation, under duress, at an intolerable sacrifice, and would leave a sting, a resentment, a bitter memory upon which terms of peace would rest, not permanently, but only as upon quicksand. Only a peace between equals can last.

Memories, War, Mean

Address to the Senate, January 22, 1917.

Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God.

Work, Perfect, Trust In God

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

Only peace between equals can last.

Lasts

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

No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.

Men, Poverty, Worship

Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.

4th Of July, Patriotic, America

Address supporting League of Nations, Sioux Falls, S.D., 8 Sept. 1919

When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.

Work, Men, Giving

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

Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

Ignorance, Responsibility, Fundamentals

Unless justice be done to others it will not be done to us.

Justice, Done

The Fourteen Points, delivered 8 January 1918

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

Quotes: 459

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