80 Quotes & Sayings By Woodrow Wilson

Woodrow Wilson was the 28th President of the United States from 1913 to 1921.

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You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand. Woodrow Wilson
We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our...
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We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this. Woodrow Wilson
You are not here merely to making a living. You...
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You are not here merely to making a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. Woodrow Wilson
We have not given science too big a place in...
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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
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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 forgo the privilege of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks. Woodrow Wilson
You are here in order to enable the world to...
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You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world. Woodrow Wilson
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Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise. Woodrow Wilson
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I not only use all the brains that I have, but all I can borrow. Woodrow Wilson
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Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of government is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is the history of the limitation of government, not the increase of it. Woodrow Wilson
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Some people have a large circle of friends while others have only friends that they like. Woodrow Wilson
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It would be the irony of fate if my administration had to deal chiefly with foreign affairs. Woodrow Wilson
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How is the schoolmaster, the nation, to know which boy needs the whipping? Woodrow Wilson
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The immortality of Thomas Jefferson does not lie in any one of his achievements, or in the series of his achievements, but in his attitude towards mankind and the conception which he sought to realize in action of the service owed by America to the rest of the world... Thomas Jefferson was a great leader of men because he understood and interpreted the spirits of men. Woodrow Wilson
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America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses. Woodrow Wilson
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I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty. But we shall not be poor if we love liberty, because the nation that loves liberty truly sets every man free to do his best and be his best. Woodrow Wilson
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A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what we have been about. Woodrow Wilson
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No man can rationally live, worship, or love his neighbour on an empty stomach. Woodrow Wilson
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The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it. Woodrow Wilson
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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
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If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience. Woodrow Wilson
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If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it; what we have to determine now is whether we are big enough, whether we are men enough, whether we are free enough, to take possession again of the government which is our own. Woodrow Wilson
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We have begun a fight that it may be will take many a generation to complete...but you know that men are not put into this world to go the path of ease; they are put into this world to go the path of pain and struggle... We have given our lives to the enterprise, and that is richer and the moral is greater. Woodrow Wilson
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We will presently find that we are not so far apart after all, that the points on which we differ are few and the points on which we agree are many, and that if we only have the patience and the candor and the desire to get together, we will get together. Woodrow Wilson
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Friendship Quote of the Week:"Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together"… Woodrow Wilson, U.S. President and World Leader Woodrow Wilson
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A politician, a man engaged in party contests, must be an opportunist. Let us give up saying that word as if it contained a slur. If you want to win in party action, I take it for granted that you want to lure the majority to your side. I never heard of any man in his senses who was fishing for a minority. Woodrow Wilson
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The men who act stand nearer to the mass of man than the men who write and it is in their hands that new thought gets its translation into the crude language of deeds. Woodrow Wilson
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Some Americans need hyphens in their names because only part of them has come over but when the whole man has come over heart and thought and all the hyphen drops of its own weight out of his name. Woodrow Wilson
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The way to stop financial "joy-riding" is to arrest the chauffeur not the automobile. Woodrow Wilson
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If you think about what you ought to do for other people your character will take care of itself. Woodrow Wilson
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To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking. Woodrow Wilson
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If you want to make enemies try to change something. Woodrow Wilson
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When Andrew Jackson died someone asked a friend if he thought Old Hickory would go to heaven. 'He will if he wants to ' was the reply. On his death bed Disraeli declined a visit from Queen Victoria. 'No it is better not' he said 'she would only ask me to take a message to Albert.' I am a broken machine. I am ready to go. Woodrow Wilson
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The world must be made safe for democracy. Woodrow Wilson
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I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being. Woodrow Wilson
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All things come to him who waits- provided he knows what he is waiting for. Woodrow Wilson
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Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together. Woodrow Wilson
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You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality. Woodrow Wilson
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A friend of mine says that every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells and when I give a man an office I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing. Woodrow Wilson
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No man ever saw a government. I live in the midst of the Government of the United States but I never saw the Government of the United States. Woodrow Wilson
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Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life. Woodrow Wilson
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A man's rootage is more important than his leafage. Woodrow Wilson
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I not only use all the brains I have but all I can borrow. Woodrow Wilson
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One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty councils. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat. Woodrow Wilson
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When you come into the presence of a leader of men you know that you have come into the presence of fire - that it is best not uncautiously to touch that man - that there is something that makes it dangerous to cross him. Woodrow Wilson
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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 domination. We seek no indemnities for ourselves no material compensation for the sacrifices we shall freely give. We are but one of the champions of the rights of mankind. We shall be satisfied when those rights have been made as secure as the faith and freedom of nations can make them. . Woodrow Wilson
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1 have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty and business liberty and every other kind of liberty in the phrase that is common in the sporting world "A free field and no favor." Woodrow Wilson
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Nothing was ever done so systematically as nothing is being done now. Woodrow Wilson
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I'm a vague conjunctured personality more made up of opinions and academic prepossessions than of human traits and red corpuscles. Woodrow Wilson
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It is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shooting at you. Woodrow Wilson
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It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars civilization itself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than peace and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts - for democracy. Woodrow Wilson
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No task rightly done is truly private. It is part of the world's work. Woodrow Wilson
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Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach. Woodrow Wilson
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I will not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with respect of the past. Woodrow Wilson
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One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat. Woodrow Wilson
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Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose. Woodrow Wilson
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There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed. Woodrow Wilson
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The method of political science is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions. Woodrow Wilson
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Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself. Woodrow Wilson
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I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something. Woodrow Wilson
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There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with. Woodrow Wilson
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I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow. Woodrow Wilson
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The history of liberty is a history of resistance. Woodrow Wilson
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It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true. Woodrow Wilson
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There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath. Woodrow Wilson
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In the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach. Woodrow Wilson
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You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape. Woodrow Wilson
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Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership. Woodrow Wilson
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Interest does not tie nations together it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them. Woodrow Wilson
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A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt. Woodrow Wilson
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A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits. Woodrow Wilson
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The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy. Woodrow Wilson
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The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous, event of our generation. Woodrow Wilson
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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
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Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles. Woodrow Wilson
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Neutrality is a negative word. It does not express what America ought to feel. We are not trying to keep out of trouble we are trying to preserve the foundations on which peace may be rebuilt. Woodrow Wilson
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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
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The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them. Woodrow Wilson
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If you want to make enemies, try to change something. Woodrow Wilson
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Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it. Woodrow Wilson