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• It must be a peace without victory

  Woodrow Wilson

  Victory

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

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• The interesting and inspiring thing about America is that she asks nothing for herself except what she has a right to ask for humanity itself.

  Woodrow Wilson

  America, Interesting, Humanity

  Woodrow Wilson (1913). “Addresses, Messages and Speeches, 1897-”

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• The soul of me is very selfish. I have gone my way after a fashion that made me the center of the plan. And you who are so individual, who are so independent a spirit, whose soul is also a kingdom, have been so loyal, so forgiving, so self-sacrificing in your willingness to live my life. Nothing but love cold have accomplished so wonderful a thing.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Fashion, Selfish, Independent

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• 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

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• I am so glad that I am young, so that I may give my youth to you.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Giving, May, Youth

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• 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”

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• The only place in the world that nothing has to be explained to me is the South.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Southern, World, Places In The World

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• This little world, this little state, this little commonwealth of our own.

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  College, World, Littles

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link (1973). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• The treasury of America lies in those ambitions, those energies, that cannot be restricted to a special favored class. It depends upon the inventions of unknown men, upon the originations of unknown men, upon the ambitions of unknown men. Every country is renewed out of the ranks of the unknown, not out of the ranks of those already famous and powerful and in control.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Country, Powerful, Lying

  Woodrow Wilson, Ronald J. Pestritto (2005). “Woodrow Wilson: The Essential Political Writings”, p.112, Lexington Books

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• We shall fight for a universal dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world itself at last free.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Peace, Fighting, Safety

  Woodrow Wilson, Ronald J. Pestritto (2005). “Woodrow Wilson: The Essential Political Writings”, p.257, Lexington Books

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• There is no indispensable man.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Jobs, Men, Presidential

  Speech accepting Democratic presidential nomination, Seagirt, N.J., 7 Aug. 1912

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• Open covenants of peace, openly arrived at.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Presidential, Covenant, League Of Nations

  "Fourteen Points" Address to Joint Session of Congress, 8 Jan. 1918

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• America is the only idealistic nation in the world.

  Woodrow Wilson

  America, Presidential, World

  Address supporting League of Nations, Sioux Falls, S.D., 8 Sept. 1919

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• The allied nations with the fullest concurrence of our government and people are agreed that in Palestine shall be laid the foundations of a Jewish Commonwealth.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Government, Israel, People

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link (1986). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• A man has deprived himself of the best there is in the world who has deprived himself of this.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Bible, Men, Presidential

  "The Papers of Woodrow Wilson: 1909-1910".

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• I am not willing to be drawn further into the toils. I cannot accede to the acceptance of gifts upon terms which take the educational policy of the university out of the hands of the Trustees and Faculty and permit it to be determined by those who give money.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Educational, Acceptance, Hands

  Woodrow Wilson, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1975). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• The Civil War created in this country what had never existed before - a national consciousness. It was not the salvation of the Union; it was the rebirth of the Union.

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  Country, War, Political

  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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• All things come to him who waits

  Woodrow Wilson

  Patience, Waiting, All Things

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• Generally young men are regarded as radicals. This is a popular misconception. The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life.

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  Past, College, Men

  Speech to Inter-Church Conference on Federation, NewYork, N.Y., 19 Nov. 1905

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• A sure sign of an amateur is too much detail to compensate for too little life.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Details, Littles, Too Much

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• Have you thought of the sufferings of Armenia? You poured out your money to help succor the Armenians after they suffered; now set your strength so that they shall never suffer again.

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  Suffering, Armenia, Helping

  Woodrow Wilson (1919). “Addresses of President Wilson: Boston, Mass., February 24, 1919. New York, N. Y., March 4, 1919”

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• Every country is renewed out of the unknown ranks and not out of the ranks of those already famous and powerful and in control.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Country, Powerful, Power

  Woodrow Wilson, Ronald J. Pestritto (2005). “Woodrow Wilson: The Essential Political Writings”, p.112, Lexington Books

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• People will endure their tyrants for years, but they tear their deliverers to pieces if a millennium is not created immediately.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Years, Tyrants, People

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• The world is not looking for servants, there are plenty of these, but for masters, men who form their purposes and then carry them out, let the consequences be what they may.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Men, Purpose, World

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

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• The only thing that saves the world is the little handful of disinterested men that are in it.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Men, World, Littles

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

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