Woodrow Wilson Quotes - Page 15

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• We can afford to exercise the self-restraint of a really great nation which realizes its own strength and scorns to misuse it.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Exercise, Self, Realizing

  Woodrow Wilson, Mario R. DiNunzio (2006). “Woodrow Wilson: Essential Writings and Speeches of the Scholar-president”, p.385, NYU Press

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• And when they [American soldiers] came, they found fit comrades for their courage and their devotion. ... Joining hands with these, the men of America gave that greatest of all gifts, the gift of life and the gift of spirit.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Men, Hands, America

  "Woodrow Wilson: Selections for Today".

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• I want the people to love me, but I suppose they never will.

  Woodrow Wilson

  People, Want

  Woodrow Wilson (1956). “The Wilson reader”

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• While we are fighting for freedom, we must see, among other things, that labor is free.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Fighting, Presidential, Fighting For Freedom

  Woodrow Wilson (2012). “President Wilson's Addresses”, p.306, tredition

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• Politics is a war of causes; a joust of principles.

  Woodrow Wilson

  War, Presidential, Principles

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

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• ...it would be a mistake...to ascribe to Roman legal conceptions an undivided sway over the development of law and institutions during the Middle Ages... The Laws of Moses as well as the laws of Rome contributed suggestions and impulse to the men and institutions which were to prepare the modern world; and if we could have but eyes to see... we should readily discover how very much besides religion we owe to the Jew.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Mistake, Eye, Men

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• There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Fighting, Men, Presidential

  Speech, Philadelphia, Pa., 10 May 1915

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• We never found a real model (for our vision).

  Woodrow Wilson

  Real, Vision, Found

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• I can predict with absolute certainty that within another generation there will be another world war if the nations of the world do not concert the method by which to prevent it.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Change, War, Generations

  Woodrow Wilson (1919). “Addresses of President Wilson”

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• There has been something crude and heartless and unfeeling in our haste to suceed and be great. Our thought has been 'Let every man look out for himself, let every generation look out for itself,' while we reared giant machinery which made it impossible that any but those who stood at the levers of control should have a chance to look out for themselves.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Success, Men, Should Have

  First Inaugural Address, delivered 4 April 1913

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• No man can be just who is not free.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Men, Justice

  Woodrow Wilson, Ollie M. James (1912). “Speech of Governor Wilson Accepting the Democratic Nomination for President of the United States: Together with the Speech of Notification Delivered by Hon. Ollie M. James at Seagirt, N.J., August 7, 1912”

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• 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

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• Be militant! Be an organization that is going to do things! If you can find older men who will give you countenance and acceptableleadership, follow them; but if you cannot, organize separately and dispense with them. There are only two sorts of men to be associated with when something is to be done: Those are young men and men who never grow old.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Men, Organization, Two

  Woodrow Wilson (2012). “President Wilson's Addresses”, p.133, tredition

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• There is no cause half so sacred as the cause of the people. There is no idea so uplifting as the idea of the service of humanity.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Trust, Uplifting, Ideas

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

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• A powerful Navy we have always regarded as our proper and natural means of defense; and it has always been of defense that we have thought, never of aggression or of conquest. But who shall tell us now what sort of Navy to build? We shall take leave to be strong upon the seas, in the future as in the past; and there will be no thought of offense or provocation in that. Our ships are our natural bulwarks.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Strong, Powerful, Military

  Woodrow Wilson (2012). “President Wilson's Addresses”, p.154, tredition

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• And while you bring all countries with you, you come with a purpose of leaving all other countries behind you - bringing what is best of their spirit, but not looking over your shoulders and seeking to perpetuate what you intended to leave behind in them.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Country, Leaving, Over You

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

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• They do not need our praise. They do not need that our admiration should sustain them. There is no immortality that is safer than theirs. We come not for their sakes but for our own, in order that we may drink at the same springs of inspiration from which they themselves drank.

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  Memorial Day, Spring, Inspiration

  Woodrow Wilson (2012). “President Wilson's Addresses”, p.96, tredition

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• It is a protest against the way the world has worked. (explanation of Bolshevism)

  Woodrow Wilson

  World, Way, Protest

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

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  Fate, Would Be, Administration

  Woodrow Wilson (1956). “The Wilson reader”

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• From the dim morning hours of history when the father was king and priest down to this modern time of history's high noon when nations stand forth full grown and self-governed, the law of coherence and continuity in political development has suffered no serious breach.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Morning, Kings, Father

  Woodrow Wilson (1895). “The State: Elements of Historical and Practical Politics. A Sketch of Institutional History and Administration”

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• The commands of democracy are as imperative as its privileges and opportunities are wide and generous. Its compulsion is upon us.

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  Responsibility, Opportunity, Democracy

  Woodrow Wilson (2012). “President Wilson's Addresses”, p.239, tredition

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• Every one at the bottom of his heart cherishes vanity; even the toad thinks himself good-looking,--"rather tawny perhaps, but look at his eye!

  Woodrow Wilson

  Heart, Eye, Thinking

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• Statesmen have to bend to the collective will of their peoples or be broken.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Broken, Collectives, Statesmen

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• To think that I, the son ofthe manse, should be able to help restore the Holy Land to its people.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Son, Thinking, Land

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• I had rather be defeated in a cause that will ultimately triumph than triumph in a cause that will ultimately be defeated.

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  Inspirational, Success, Failure

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