Woodrow Wilson Quotes About Affairs

Quotes about: Affairs

• War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.

  Woodrow Wilson

  War, Names, Affair

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

• There was a time when corporations played a minor part in our business affairs, but now they play the chief part, and most men are the servants of corporations.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Men, Play, Corporations

  Woodrow Wilson, Ronald J. Pestritto (2005). “Woodrow Wilson: the essential political writings”

• For my part, I am very much more afraid of the man who does a bad thing and does not know it is bad than of the man who does a bad thing and knows it is bad; because I think that in public affairs stupidity is more dangerous than knavery, because harder to fight and dislodge.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Fighting, Government, Stupidity

  "The New Freedom".

• We are participants, whether we would or not, in the life of the world.... We are partners with the rest. What affects mankind isinevitably our affair as well as the nations of Europe and Asia.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Europe, League, World

• The presidential office is not a rosewater affair. This is an office in which a man must put on his war paint.

  Woodrow Wilson

  War, Men, Office

• There is a very holy and a very terrible isolation for the conscience of every man who seeks to read the destiny in affairs for others as well as for himself, for a nation as well as for individuals. That privacy no man can intrude upon. That lonely search of the spirit for the right perhaps no man can assist.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Lonely, Loneliness, Destiny

  Woodrow Wilson (2015). “Wilson, Volume V: Campaigns for Progressivism and Peace, 1916-1917”, p.96, Princeton University Press

• 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.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Book, Simple, Men

• At last a vision has been vouchsafed to us of our life as a whole. We see the bad with the good.... With this vision we approach new affairs. Our duty is to cleanse, to reconsider, to restore, to correct the evil without impairing the good, to purify and humanize every process of our common life, without weakening or sentimentalizing it.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Evil, Vision, Lasts

  First Inaugural Address, delivered 4 April 1913

• It would be the irony of fate if my administration had to deal chiefly with foreign affairs.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Fate, Would Be, Administration

  Woodrow Wilson (1956). “The Wilson reader”

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