Woodrow Wilson Quotes About Opinions

Quotes about: Opinions

• 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

• [We are] 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 the duress of small groups of dominant men.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Men, Nwo, Free Opinion

  Woodrow Wilson (2012). “The New Freedom A Call For the Emancipation of the Generous Energies of a People”, p.136, tredition

• I am a most unhappy man. I accidentally ruined my country. A great industrial nation is now controlled by its system of credit. Our government is no longer based on the freedom of opinion, nor on the conviction and the majority decision, it is now a government which is subjected to the conviction and the compulsion of a small group of dominant men.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Country, Men, Decision

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

  Woodrow Wilson

  Law, Reign, Opinion

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

• The flag is a flag of liberty of opinion as well as of political liberty.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Carpe Diem, Political, Liberty

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1971). “Papers: Edited by Arthur S. Link and Others”

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

  Woodrow Wilson

  Men, Historical, Groups

  Statement to the nation, 4 Mar. 1917

• Opinion is the great, indeed the only coordinating force in our system.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Inspirational, Opinion, Force

  Woodrow Wilson, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1974). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

• I have come slowly into possession of such powers as I have. I receive the opinions of my day. I do not conceive them. But I receive them into a vivid mind.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Mind, Vivid, Opinion

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link (1888). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson”

• I'm a vague, conjunctured personality, more made up of opinions and academic prepossessions than of human traits and red corpuscles.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Personality, Red, Opinion

• Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise. Once and again one of those great influences which we call a Cause arises in the midst of a nation. Men of strenuous minds and high ideals come forward.... The attacks they sustain are more cruel than the collision of arms.... Friends desert and despise them.... They stand alone and oftentimes are made bitter by their isolation.... They are doing nothing less than defy public opinion, and shall they convert it by blows. Yes.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Leadership, Men, Blow

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