Woodrow Wilson Quotes - Page 4

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• The world must be made safe for democracy.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Presidential, Democracy, World

  Address to Joint Session of Congress asking for declaration of war, 2 Apr. 1917 See ThomasWolfe 1

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• Today, supremely, it behooves us to remember that a nation shall be saved by the power that sleeps in its own bosom; or by none; shall be renewed in hope, in confidence, in strength by waters welling up from its own sweet, perennial springs. Not from above; not by patronage of its aristocrats. The flower does not bear the root, but the root the flower.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Sweet, Freedom, Spring

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• As a matter of fact and experience, the more power is divided the more irresponsible it becomes.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Power, Matter, Facts

  Woodrow Wilson (2012). “Congressional Government: A Study in American Politics”, p.77, Courier Corporation

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• The only way your powers can become great is by exerting them outside the circle of your own narrow, special, selfish interests. And that is the reason of Christianity. Christ came into the world to save others, not to save himself; and no man is a true Christian who does not think constantly of how he can lift his brother, how he can assist his friend, how he can enlighten mankind, how he can make virtue the rule of conduct in the circle in which he lives.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Christian, Brother, Selfish

  Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.50, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• The fewer the desires, the more peace.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Desire, Fewer

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• The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Peace, Patriotic, Political

  Speech to Congress, 2 Apr. 1917, in Selected Addresses (1918) p. 195

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• I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Patriotic

  "American Politics and the Party System". Book by Hugh A. Bone, p. 482, 1949.

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• Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Work, Perfect, Trust In God

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1994). “Papers”

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• Character, my friends, is a byproduct. It is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Character, Habit, Great Men

  "Wit and Wisdom of Woodrow Wilson".

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• Unless justice be done to others it will not be done to us.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Justice, Done

  The Fourteen Points, delivered 8 January 1918

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• Washington has seldom seen so numerous, so industrious or so insidious a lobby. There is every evidence that money without limit is being spent to sustain this lobby.... I know that in this I am speaking for the members of the two houses, who would rejoice as much as I would to be released from this unbearable situation.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Two, House, Limits

  Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.9, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• The Americans who went to Europe to die are a unique breed.... (They) crossed the seas to a foreign land to fight for a cause which they did not pretend was peculiarly their own, which they knew was the cause of humanity and mankind. These Americans gave the greatest of all gifts, the gift of life and the gift of spirit.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Fighting, Unique, Europe

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• An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of Democracy

  Woodrow Wilson

  Democracy, Empires, Invisible

  Woodrow Wilson, Ronald J. Pestritto (2005). “Woodrow Wilson: The Essential Political Writings”, p.117, Lexington Books

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• 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

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• The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty. We have no selfish ends to serve. We desire no conquest, no dominion. We seek no indemnities for ourselves, no material compensation for the sacrifices we shall freely make.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Selfish, Sacrifice, Political

  Speech to Congress, 2 April 1917, in 'Selected Addresses' (1918) p. 195

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• We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Love, Dream, Spring

  "By the Way" by Preston Williams, Xulon Press, Virginia (pp. 38-39), 2002.

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• That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Kings, Cynical, Democracy

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link (1976). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• My urgent advice to you would be, not only always to think first of America, but always, also, to think first of humanity. You do not love humanity if you seek to divide humanity into jealous camps. Humanity can be welded together only by love, by sympathy, by justice, not by jealousy and hatred. I am sorry for the man who seeks to make personal capital out of the passions of his fellowmen. He has lost touch with the ideal of America. For America was created to unit mankind.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Sorry, Passion, Jealous

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• Conservatism is the policy of make no change and consult your grandmother when in doubt.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Grandmother, Political, Doubt

  Woodrow Wilson (1986). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• The princes among us are those who forget themselves and serve others.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Forget

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

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• 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”

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• Only peace between equals can last.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Lasts

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

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• We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Inspirational, Sports, Dream

  "By the Way" by Preston Williams, Xulon Press, Virginia (pp. 38-39), 2002.

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• Remember that God ordained that I should be the next president of the United States. Neither you nor any other mortal or mortals could have prevented this.

  Woodrow Wilson

  President, United States, Next

  "Woodrow Wilson: A Psychological Study". Book by Sigmund Freud and William Christian Bullitt, Jr., 1966.

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• Never murder a man when he's busy committing suicide.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Suicide, Men, Politics

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