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Woodrow Wilson Quotes - Page 6

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America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us...

America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us...

Patriotic, America, Individuality

Speech on Military Preparedness, Pittsburgh, January 29, 1916.

A fault which humbles a person is of more use to him or her than a good action which puffs him or her up.

Humility, Puff, Use

I have the feeling that he would rather see a good cause fail than succeed if he were not the head of it.

Feelings, Succeed, Causes

I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.

Teacher, Teaching, Long

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

Washington has seldom seen so numerous, so industrious or so insidious a lobby. There is every evidence that money without limit is being spent to sustain this lobby.... I know that in this I am speaking for the members of the two houses, who would rejoice as much as I would to be released from this unbearable situation.

Two, House, Limits

Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.9, The Minerva Group, Inc.

The man who reads everything is like the man who eats everything: he can digest nothing, and the penalty of crowding one's mind with other men's thoughts is to have no thoughts of one's own.

Reading, Book, Men

The beauty of a democracy is that you never can tell when a youngster is born what he is going to do with himself, and that no matter how humbly he is born, no matter where he is born, no matter what circumstances hamper him at the outset, he has got a chance to master the minds and lead the imaginations of the whole country.

Country, Imagination, Mind

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

When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.

Men, Warfare, Arms

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

Jefferson's Declaration of Independence is a practical document for the use of practical men. It is not a thesis for philosophers, but a whip for tyrants; it is not a theory of government but a program of action.

Men, Tyrants, Independence

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

To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fibre of national life.

War, Fighting, Brutality

Woodrow Wilson (2015). “Wilson, Volume V: Campaigns for Progressivism and Peace, 1916-1917”, p.399, Princeton University Press

The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.

Patriotic, Patriotism, Embodiment

Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.91, The Minerva Group, Inc.

We forget that there is much more patriotism in having the audacity to differ from the majority than in running before the crowd; we forget that in the resistance of the minority some of the biggest things in our own history have been accomplished, and the man who looks on the Stars and Stripes and doesn't hold a right to say nay to his neighbor, even if the neighbor is of the larger party, has forgotten the history of his country.

Running, Country, Stars

No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.

Inspirational, Life, Hope

Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.87, The Minerva Group, Inc.

A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.

Men, Historical, Groups

Statement to the nation, 4 Mar. 1917

I am the friend of peace and mean to preserve it for America so long as I am able. . . . No course of my choosing or of their (nations at war) will lead to war. War can come only by the wilful acts and aggressions of others.

War, Mean, America

Woodrow Wilson, Pope Benedict XV, James Wilford Garner, Frank D. Garland (1917). “Why We Fight Germany: Being the President's Addresses Relating to the Great War and His Reply to the Pope's Peace Proposal”

One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.

Inspirational, Patriotic, Light

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

The shadows that now lie dark upon our path will soon be dispelled and we shall walk with the light all about us if we but be true to ourselves.

Lying, Dark, Light

Woodrow Wilson (2015). “Wilson, Volume V: Campaigns for Progressivism and Peace, 1916-1917”, p.368, Princeton University Press

The seed of revolution is repression.

Revolution, Revolutionary, Seeds

Woodrow Wilson, Ray Stannard Baker, Howard Seavoy Leach (1927). “The Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson: The new democracy; presidential messages, addresses, and other papers (1913-1917)”

It does not become America that within her borders, where every man is free to follow the dictates of his conscience, men should raise the cry of church against church. To do that is to strike at the very spirit and heart of America.

Heart, Men, America

Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link (1980). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson”

No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know

Doe, Students, Subjects

Woodrow Wilson (2012). “The New Freedom A Call For the Emancipation of the Generous Energies of a People”, p.72, tredition

I am not one of those who believe that a great standing army is the means of maintaining peace, because if you build up a great profession those who form parts of it want to exercise their profession.

Peace, Believe, Mean

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

Wilson was once asked how long it took him to write a speech. He answered, 'That depends. If I am to speak 10 minutes, I need a week for preparation. If 15 minutes, 3 days. If half hour, two days. If an hour, I am ready now.'

Writing, Two, Long

High society is for those who have stopped working and no longer have anything important to do.

Important, Society

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

The masters of the government of the United States are the combined capitalists and manufacturers of the United States.

Government, United States, Masters

Woodrow Wilson (2016). “The New Freedom: [Illustrated & Biography Added]”, p.42, eKitap Projesi

We grow by our dreams.

Dream, Grows, Our Dreams

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

Quotes: 459

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