Woodrow Wilson Quotes

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• I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the civilized world - no longer a Government by free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Country, Men, Nwo

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• If you lose your wealth, you have lost nothing; if you lose your health, you have lost something; but if you lose your character, you have lost everything.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Character, Healthy, Lost Everything

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• Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of somebody, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.

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  Fear, Men, Nwo

  "The New Freedom : A Call For the Emancipation of the Generous Energies of a People" by Woodrow Wilson, (p. 13), 1913.

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  You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Life, Motivational, Inspiring

  Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.15, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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  The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Government, Hands, People

  Woodrow Wilson, Ronald J. Pestritto (2005). “Woodrow Wilson: The Essential Political Writings”, p.117, Lexington Books

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  If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Change, Clever, Christian Inspirational

  Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.135, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• We ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialists--believers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Government, Body, Socialism

  Woodrow Wilson (1898). “The State: Elements of Historical and Practical Politics”

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

  Woodrow Wilson

  Thinking, People, Bigs

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• The highest and best form of efficiency is the spontaneous cooperation of a free people.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Inspirational, Life, People

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1985). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• The difference between a strong man and a weak one is that the former does not give up after a defeat.

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  Strong, Giving Up, Men

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  The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.

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  Leadership, Patriotic, Voice

  Woodrow Wilson (1965). “The Political Thought of Woodrow Wilson”

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• I am sorry for those that disagree with me because I know that they are wrong.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Funny, Sorry, Knows

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• 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.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Memories, War, Mean

  Address to the Senate, January 22, 1917.

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• God knows that any man who would seek the presidency of the United States is a fool for his pains. The burden is all but intolerable, and the things that I have to do are just as much as the human spirit can carry.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Pain, Men, United States

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

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• We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Presidential, Tragedy, Citizens

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• The law that will work is merely the summing up in legislative form of the moral judgment that the community has already reached.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Law, Community, Political

  Woodrow Wilson (1980). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• Only a peace between equals can last. Only a peace the very principle of which is equality and a common participation in a common benefit.

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  Peace, Benefits, Lasts

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

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• We are not put into this world to sit still and know; we are put into it to act.

  Woodrow Wilson

  World, This World, Stills

  Woodrow Wilson, Mario R. DiNunzio (2006). “Woodrow Wilson: Essential Writings and Speeches of the Scholar-president”, p.127, NYU Press

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• ...I do not want a government that will take care of me, I want a government that will make other men take their hands off me so I can take care of myself.

  Woodrow Wilson

  War, Men, Hands

  Woodrow Wilson, Mario R. DiNunzio (2006). “Woodrow Wilson: Essential Writings and Speeches of the Scholar-president”, p.359, NYU Press

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• America was born a Christian nation. America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness, which are derived from Holy Scripture. Ladies and gentlemen, I have a very simple thing to ask of you. I ask of every man and woman in this audience that, from this night on, they will realize that part of the destiny of America lies in their daily perusal of this great Book of revelations. (The Bible) That if they would see America free and pure they will make their own spirits free and pure by the baptism of Holy Scripture.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Christian, Lying, Book

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

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• Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it.

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  Power, Government, Historical

  "The Political Thought of Woodrow Wilson".

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• 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.

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  Heart, Men, America

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

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• You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.

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  Friendship, Real Friends, Equality

  Woodrow Wilson, Mario R. DiNunzio (2006). “Woodrow Wilson: Essential Writings and Speeches of the Scholar-president”, p.381, NYU Press

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• I am not sure that it is of the first importance that you should be happy. Many an unhappy man has been of deep service to himself and to the world.

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  Happiness, Men, Unhappy

  Woodrow Wilson (1974). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Children, Men, Opportunity

  Woodrow Wilson (2012). “President Wilson's Addresses”, p.27, tredition

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