Woodrow Wilson Quotes - Page 7

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• America was born a Christian nation.

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  Christian, America, Born

  Woodrow Wilson, Mario R. DiNunzio (2006). “Woodrow Wilson: Essential Writings and Speeches of the Scholar-president”, p.59, NYU Press

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• Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

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  Ignorance, Responsibility, Fundamentals

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• Today's greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow.

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  Procrastination, Saving, Today

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• I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.

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  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Speech to the National Press Club, The Independent, Volume 77, March 20, 1914.

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• Let me... remind you that it is only by working with an energy which is almost superhuman and which looks to uninterested spectators like insanity that we can accomplish anything worth the achievement. Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God.

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  Discipline, Perfect, Achievement

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• Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.

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  Selfishness, Agents, Confidential

  Woodrow Wilson, Mario R. DiNunzio (2006). “Woodrow Wilson: Essential Writings and Speeches of the Scholar-president”, p.101, NYU Press

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• There is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.

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  World Government, Nwo, Bankers

  "The New Freedom". Illustrated & Biography Added,

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• I would not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with great respect of the past.

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  Respect, Party, Past

  "Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson".

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• We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class, of necessity, in every society, to forego the privileges of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks.

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  Class, Tasks, Want

  "The Meaning of a Liberal Education". Address to the New York City High School Teachers Association, January 9, 1909.

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• There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.

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  Peace, War, Power

  Woodrow Wilson (2015). “Wilson, Volume V: Campaigns for Progressivism and Peace, 1916-1917”, p.265, Princeton University Press

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• 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.

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  Country, Men, Decision

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• Living political constitutions must be Darwinian in structure and in practice. Society is a living organism and must obey the laws of life, not of mechanics; it must develop. All that progressives ask or desire is permission-in an era when 'development,' 'evolution,' is the scientific word-to interpret the Constitution according to the Darwinian principle; all they ask is recognition of the fact that a nation is a living thing and not a machine.

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  Law, Practice, Political

  Woodrow Wilson, Ronald J. Pestritto (2005). “Woodrow Wilson: The Essential Political Writings”, p.121, Lexington Books

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• To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fibre of national life.

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  War, Fighting, Brutality

  Woodrow Wilson (2015). “Wilson, Volume V: Campaigns for Progressivism and Peace, 1916-1917”, p.399, Princeton University Press

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• Benevolence does not consist in those who are prosperous pitying and helping those who are not. It consists in fellow feeling that puts you upon actually the same level with the fellow who suffers.

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  Feelings, Suffering, Doe

  Woodrow Wilson (1956). “A crossroads of freedom, the 1912 campaign speeches”

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• I am not one of those who believe that a great standing army is the means of maintaining peace, because if you build up a great profession those who form parts of it want to exercise their profession.

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  Peace, Believe, Mean

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

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• It is the object of learning, not only to satisfy the curiosity and perfect the spirits of ordinary men, but also to advance civilization.

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  Learning, Men, Civilization

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• We grow by our dreams.

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  Dream, Grows, Our Dreams

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• Jefferson's Declaration of Independence is a practical document for the use of practical men. It is not a thesis for philosophers, but a whip for tyrants; it is not a theory of government but a program of action.

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  Men, Tyrants, Independence

  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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• The man who disparages music as a luxury and non-essential is doing the nation an injury. Music now, more than ever before, is a national need.

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  Men, Luxury, Essentials

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• Self-determination is not a mere phrase. It is an imperative principle of action, which statesmen will henceforth ignore at their peril.

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  Determination, Self, Principles

  Woodrow Wilson, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1984). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• Wilson was once asked how long it took him to write a speech. He answered, 'That depends. If I am to speak 10 minutes, I need a week for preparation. If 15 minutes, 3 days. If half hour, two days. If an hour, I am ready now.'

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  Writing, Two, Long

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• The flag of the United States has not been created by rhetorical sentences in declarations of independence and in bills of rights. It has been created by the experience of a great people, and nothing is written upon it that has not been written by their life. It is the embodiment, not of a sentiment, but of a history.

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  Rights, People, Independence

  Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.91, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• There is such a thing as man being too proud to fight. There is such a thing as a nation being so right that it does not need to convince others by force that it is right.

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  War, Fighting, Men

  Speech in Philadelphia, 10 May 1915, in Selected Addresses (1918) p. 88

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• Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.

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  Understanding, Soil, Fruit

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• Responsibility is proportionate to opportunity.

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  Responsibility, Opportunity

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