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Woodrow Wilson Quotes - Page 8

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The welfare, the happiness, the energy and spirit of the men and women who do the daily workis the underlying necessity of all prosperity.... There can be nothing wholesome unless their life is wholesome; there can be

The welfare, the happiness, the energy and spirit of the men and women who do the daily workis the underlying necessity of all prosperity.... There can be nothing wholesome unless their life is wholesome; there can be no contentment unless they are contented.

Men, Energy, Spirit

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

If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. Character is a by-product, and any man who devotes himself to its cultivation in his own case will become a selfish prig.

Inspirational, Selfish, Character

Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.50, The Minerva Group, Inc.

The ordinary literary man, even though he be an eminent historian, is ill-fitted to be a mentor in affairs of government. For... things are for the most part very simple in books, and in practical life very complex.

Book, Simple, Men

I have had the accomplishment of something like this at heart ever since I was a boy.... So I feel tonight like the man who is lodging happily in the inn which lies half way along the journey and that in time, with a fresh impulse, we shall go the rest of the journey and sleep at the journey's end like men with a quiet conscience.

Lying, Ambition, Sleep

What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.

Law, Reign, Opinion

Woodrow Wilson (1945). “Woodrow Wilson: Selections for Today”

Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the distemper's that make an ordered life impossible.

Revolution, Reform, Doe

Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.287, The Minerva Group, Inc.

It is not an army that we must train for war; it is a nation.

Military, War, Army

1917 Speech, Washington, 12 May.

The man who has no vision will undertake no great enterprise.

Men, Vision, He Man

You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it.

Tree, Tears, Liberty

Woodrow Wilson, Ronald J. Pestritto (2005). “Woodrow Wilson: The Essential Political Writings”, p.120, Lexington Books

One of the proofs of the divinity of our gospel is the preaching it has survived.

Divinity, Proof, Preaching

We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.

Fighting, Defeat, Beaten

Any man that resists the present tides that run in the world, will find himself thrown upon a shore so high and barren that it will seem he has been separated from his human kind forever.

Running, Men, League

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

Thought cannot conceive of anything that may not be brought to expression. He who first uttered it may be only the suggester, but the doer will appear.

Expression, May, Doers

Government, in it's last analysis, is organized force.

Government, Liberty, Analysis

Woodrow Wilson, Ronald J. Pestritto (2005). “Woodrow Wilson: The Essential Political Writings”, p.49, Lexington Books

There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.

Peace, Pay The Price, Self

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

The example of America must be the example not merely of peace because it will not fight, but of peace because peace is the healing and elevating influence of the world, and strife is not. There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight. There is such a thing as a nation being so right that it does not need to convince others by force that it is right.

Peace, Healing, Fighting

Speech in Philadelphia, 10 May 1915, in 'Selected Addresses' (1918) p. 88

My dream is that as the years go by and the world knows more and more of America, itwill turn to America for those moral inspirations that lie at the basis of all freedomthat America will come into the full light of the day when all shall know that she puts human rights above all other rights, and that her flag is the flag not only of America but of humanity.

Dream, Lying, Inspiration

The nature of men and of organized society dictates the maintenance in every field of action of the highest and purest standards of justice and of right dealing.... By justice the lawyer generally means the prompt, fair, and open application of impartial rules; but we call ours a Christian civilization, and a Christian conception of justice must be much higher. It must include sympathy and helpfulness and a willingness to forego self-interest in order to promote the welfare, happiness, and contentment of others and of the community as a whole.

Christian, Mean, Men

There's not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else's brains.

Knowledge, Ideas, Brain

A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.

Success, Men, May

A radical is one of whom people say ''He goes too far.'' A conservative, on the other hand, is one who ''doesn't go far enough.'' Then there is the reactionary, ''one who doesn't go at all.'' All these terms are more or less objectionable, wherefore we have

Hands, People, Progress

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

Self-determination is not a mere phrase. It is an imperative principle of action, which statesmen will henceforth ignore at their peril.

Determination, Self, Principles

Woodrow Wilson, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1984). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

Sciencehas won for us a great liberty in the physical world, a liberty from superstitious fear and from disease, a freedom touse nature as a familiar servant; but it has not freed us from ourselves.

Science, Liberty, World

Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link (1971). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson”

This book [the Bible] speaks both the voice of God and the voice of humanity, for there is told in it the most convincing of human experience that has ever been written...and those who heed that story will know their strength and happiness and success are all summed up in the exhortation, "Fear God and keep His commandments."

Book, Voice, Humanity

We came to America, either ourselves or in the persons of our ancestors, to better the ideals of men, to make them see finer things than they had seen before, to get rid of the things that divide and to make sure of the things that unite.

Men, America, Immigration

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

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

Quotes: 459

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