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Woodrow Wilson Quotes - Page 15

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Music says nothing to the reason: it is a kind of closely structured nonsense.

Music says nothing to the reason: it is a kind of closely structured nonsense.

Kind, Nonsense, Reason

I am all kinds of a democrat, so far as I can discover but the root of the whole business is this, that I believe in the patriotism and energy and initiative of the average man.

Believe, Men, Average

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

Reality is what I see, not what you see.

Reality

Death comes along like a gas bill one can't payand that's all one can sayabout it.

Bills, Gas

We are participants, whether we would or not, in the life of the world.... We are partners with the rest. What affects mankind isinevitably our affair as well as the nations of Europe and Asia.

Europe, League, World

Not all change is progress.

Progress

Woodrow Wilson, Howard Seavoy Leach (1970). “The Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson: Authorized Ed”

We didn't have another choice but to do what we did, if we wanted to be accepted, because we weren't counted as human beings.

Choices, Accepted, Wanted

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.

Peace, Fighting, Safety

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

It would be the irony of fate if my administration had to deal chiefly with foreign affairs.

Fate, Would Be, Administration

Woodrow Wilson (1956). “The Wilson reader”

The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates.

Education, College, Conservative

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

The Constitution was not made to fit us like a straitjacket. In its elasticity lies its chief greatness.

Lying, Greatness, Constitution

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

The literary gift is a very dangerous gift to possess if you are not telling the truth, and I would a great deal rather, for my part, have a man stumble in his speech than to feel he was so exceedingly smooth that he had better be watched both day and night.

Night, Men, Speech

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

There are blessed intervals when I forget by one means or another that I am President of the United States.

Blessed, Mean, Political

Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link (1979). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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.

Government, Israel, People

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

There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight.

Fighting, Men, Presidential

Speech, Philadelphia, Pa., 10 May 1915

And when they [American soldiers] came, they found fit comrades for their courage and their devotion. ... Joining hands with these, the men of America gave that greatest of all gifts, the gift of life and the gift of spirit.

Men, Hands, America

"Woodrow Wilson: Selections for Today".

I want the people to love me, but I suppose they never will.

People, Want

Woodrow Wilson (1956). “The Wilson reader”

Liberty cannot live apart from constitutional

President, Liberty

Woodrow Wilson, Ronald J. Pestritto (2005). “Woodrow Wilson: The Essential Political Writings”, p.241, Lexington Books

While we are fighting for freedom, we must see, among other things, that labor is free.

Fighting, Presidential, Fighting For Freedom

Woodrow Wilson (2012). “President Wilson's Addresses”, p.306, tredition

To think that I, the son ofthe manse, should be able to help restore the Holy Land to its people.

Son, Thinking, Land

There has been something crude and heartless and unfeeling in our haste to suceed and be great. Our thought has been 'Let every man look out for himself, let every generation look out for itself,' while we reared giant machinery which made it impossible that any but those who stood at the levers of control should have a chance to look out for themselves.

Success, Men, Should Have

First Inaugural Address, delivered 4 April 1913

Opinion is the great, indeed the only coordinating force in our system.

Inspirational, Opinion, Force

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

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.

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

I can predict with absolute certainty that within another generation there will be another world war if the nations of the world do not concert the method by which to prevent it.

Change, War, Generations

Woodrow Wilson (1919). “Addresses of President Wilson”

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.

Country, Powerful, Lying

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

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

Quotes: 459

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