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• The success of a party means little except when the nation is using that party for a large and definite purpose. No one can mistake the purpose for which the nation now seeks to use the Democratic party. It seeks to use it to interpret a change in its own plans and point of view.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Party, Mean, Views

  "Woodrow Wilson: Essential Writings and Speeches of the Scholar-president".

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• A man is not as big as his belief in himself; he is as big as the number of persons who believe in him.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Believe, Greatness, Men

  Woodrow Wilson, Mario R. DiNunzio (2006). “Woodrow Wilson: Essential Writings and Speeches of the Scholar-president”, p.355, NYU Press

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• If you would be a leader of men, you must lead your own generation, not the next.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Men, Leader, Would Be

  Woodrow Wilson, Ronald J. Pestritto (2005). “Woodrow Wilson: The Essential Political Writings”, p.216, Lexington Books

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• ...to make the world safe for democracy.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Strong Women, Tyrants, Differences

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1985). “Papers: Edited by Arthur S. Link and Others”

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• 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”

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• Politics is a war of causes; a joust of principles. Government is too serious a matter to admit of meaningless courtesies.

  Woodrow Wilson

  War, Government, Principles

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

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• Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Luxury, Political, Politics

  Woodrow Wilson, Ronald J. Pestritto (2005). “Woodrow Wilson: The Essential Political Writings”, p.224, Lexington Books

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• Interest does not tie nations together; it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Sympathy, Ties, Understanding

  Woodrow Wilson (2012). “President Wilson's Addresses”, p.58, tredition

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• All the extraordinary men I have ever known were chiefly extraordinary in their own estimation.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Self Esteem, Men, Self Respect

  "The papers of Woodrow Wilson".

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• One cannot pay the price of self-respect.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Self Esteem, Pay The Price, Self Respect

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

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• I lived a dream life (almost too exclusively, perhaps) when I was a lad and even now my thought goes back for refreshment to thosedays when all the world seemed to be a place of heroic adventure in which one's heart must keep its own counsel.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Dream, Heart, Adventure

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1977). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson: 1911-1912”

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• A living thing is born.

  Woodrow Wilson

  League, Born, League Of Nations

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

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• Americanism consists in utterly believing in the principles of America.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Military, Believe, America

  Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.130, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• If Freud had worn a kilt in the prescribed Highland manner he might have had a very different attitude to genitals.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Attitude, Different, Kilts

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• Property as compared with humanity, as compared with the red blood in the American people, must take second place, not first place.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Blood, People, Red Lipstick

  Woodrow Wilson (1956). “A Crossroads of Freedom: The 1912 Campaign Speeches”

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• A man who thinks of himself as belonging to a particular national group in America has not yet become an American. And the man who goes among you to trade upon your nationality is no worthy son to live under the Stars and Stripes.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Stars, Son, Men

  Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.86, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Political, Campaigns, Politics

  Woodrow Wilson (1966). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• The trouble with the theory [of limited and divided government] is that government is not a machine, but a living thing. This is where the living and breathing constitution comes from. It is modified by its environment, necessitated by its tasks, shaped to its functions by the sheer pressure of life.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Government, Breathing, Tasks

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• Freedom exists only where the people take care of the government.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Freedom, Military, Government

  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

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• 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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• I want to re-echo my hope that we may all work together for a great peace as distinguished from a mean peace.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Mean, Echoes, Together

  Woodrow Wilson, Howard Seavoy Leach (1927). “The Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson: War and peace; presidential messages, addresses, and public papers (1917-1924)”

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• You must act in your friends' interests whether it pleases them or not; the object of love is to serve, not to win.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Love, Winning, Interest

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

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• We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Education, Mistake, Giving

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

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• The United States must be neutral in fact as well as in name.... We must be impartial in thought as well as in actiona nationthat neither sits in judgment upon others nor is disturbed in her own counsels and which keeps herself fit and free to do what is honest and disinterested and truly serviceable for the peace of the world.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Names, United States, Neutrality

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• The greatest embarrassment of my political career has been that active duties seem to deprive me of time for careful investigation. I seem almost obliged to form conclusions from impressions instead of from study.... I wish that I had more knowledge, more thorough acquaintance, with the matters involved.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Careers, Political, Wish

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link (1977). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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