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Interest does not tie nations together; it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.

Interest does not tie nations together; it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.

Sympathy, Ties, Understanding

Woodrow Wilson (2012). “President Wilson's Addresses”, p.58, tredition

Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse.

Luxury, Political, Politics

Woodrow Wilson, Ronald J. Pestritto (2005). “Woodrow Wilson: The Essential Political Writings”, p.224, Lexington Books

One cannot pay the price of self-respect.

Self Esteem, Pay The Price, Self Respect

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

All the extraordinary men I have ever known were chiefly extraordinary in their own estimation.

Self Esteem, Men, Self Respect

"The papers of Woodrow Wilson".

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

Country, Powerful, Power

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

I lived a dream life (almost too exclusively, perhaps) when I was a lad and even now my thought goes back for refreshment to thosedays when all the world seemed to be a place of heroic adventure in which one's heart must keep its own counsel.

Dream, Heart, Adventure

Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1977). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson: 1911-1912”

A living thing is born.

League, Born, League Of Nations

Woodrow Wilson (1965). “The Political Thought of Woodrow Wilson”

Property as compared with humanity, as compared with the red blood in the American people, must take second place, not first place.

Blood, People, Red Lipstick

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

Americanism consists in utterly believing in the principles of America.

Military, Believe, America

Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.130, The Minerva Group, Inc.

A man who thinks of himself as belonging to a particular national group in America has not yet become an American. And the man who goes among you to trade upon your nationality is no worthy son to live under the Stars and Stripes.

Stars, Son, Men

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

If Freud had worn a kilt in the prescribed Highland manner he might have had a very different attitude to genitals.

Attitude, Different, Kilts

My best training came from my father.

Funny, Dad, Father

The trouble with the theory [of limited and divided government] is that government is not a machine, but a living thing. This is where the living and breathing constitution comes from. It is modified by its environment, necessitated by its tasks, shaped to its functions by the sheer pressure of life.

Government, Breathing, Tasks

Freedom exists only where the people take care of the government.

Freedom, Military, Government

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

Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Political, Campaigns, Politics

Woodrow Wilson (1966). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson”

You must act in your friends' interests whether it pleases them or not; the object of love is to serve, not to win.

Love, Winning, Interest

Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1974). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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, for the right of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their own Governments, for the rights and liberties of small nations, 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.

Heart, Fighting, Rights

War Message, delivered 2 April 1917

The greatest embarrassment of my political career has been that active duties seem to deprive me of time for careful investigation. I seem almost obliged to form conclusions from impressions instead of from study.... I wish that I had more knowledge, more thorough acquaintance, with the matters involved.

Careers, Political, Wish

Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link (1977). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson”

We want the spirit of America to be efficient; we want American character to be efficient; we want American character to display itself in what I may, perhaps, be allowed to call spiritual efficiency - clear disinterested thinking and fearless action

Spiritual, Character, Thinking

Woodrow Wilson (1916). “Addresses of President Wilson, January 27-February 3, 1916”

Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise. Once and again one of those great influences which we call a Cause arises in the midst of a nation. Men of strenuous minds and high ideals come forward.... The attacks they sustain are more cruel than the collision of arms.... Friends desert and despise them.... They stand alone and oftentimes are made bitter by their isolation.... They are doing nothing less than defy public opinion, and shall they convert it by blows. Yes.

Leadership, Men, Blow

I want to re-echo my hope that we may all work together for a great peace as distinguished from a mean peace.

Mean, Echoes, Together

Woodrow Wilson, Howard Seavoy Leach (1927). “The Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson: War and peace; presidential messages, addresses, and public papers (1917-1924)”

The United States must be neutral in fact as well as in name.... We must be impartial in thought as well as in actiona nationthat neither sits in judgment upon others nor is disturbed in her own counsels and which keeps herself fit and free to do what is honest and disinterested and truly serviceable for the peace of the world.

Names, United States, Neutrality

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.

Education, Mistake, Giving

Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link (1971). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson”

This is history written in lightning.

Lightning, Hollywood, Film

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

Years, Tyrants, People

Born: December 28, 1856 - February 3, 1924
Occupation: 28th U.S. President

Quotes: 459

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