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Woodrow Wilson Quotes - Page 17

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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.

I'm a vague, conjunctured personality, more made up of opinions and academic prepossessions than of human traits and red corpuscles.

Personality, Red, Opinion

Where the great force lies, there must be the sanction of peace.

Peace, Lying, League

Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1988). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

We grow through our dreams. All great men and women are dreamers. Some, however, allow their dreams to die. You should nurse your dreams and protect them through bad times and tough times to the sunshine and light which always come.

Dream, Sunshine, Men

The presidential office is not a rosewater affair. This is an office in which a man must put on his war paint.

War, Men, Office

It has become a people's war, and peoples of all sorts and races, of every degree of power and variety of fortune, are involved inits sweeping processes of change and settlement.

War, Race, People

Woodrow Wilson (1918). “State Papers and Addresses”

I used to be a lawyer, but now I am a reformed character.

Character, Lawyer, Used

If I cannot retain my moral influence over a man except by occasionally knocking him down, if that is the only basis upon which he will respect me, then for the sake of his soul I have got occasionally to knock him down.

Men, Soul, Sake

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

The Government of the United States would be constrained to hold the Imperial German government to a strict accountability for such acts of their naval authorities.

War, Government, Accountability

Woodrow Wilson, Albert Fried (1965). “A Day of Dedication”, New York : Macmillan [1965]

There is here a great melting pot in which we must compound a precious metal. That metal is the metal of nationality.

Melting Pot, Precious Metal, Compounds

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

Whatever may be said against the chewing of tobacco, this at least can be said of it, that it gives a man time to think between sentences.

Men, Thinking, Giving

I am so glad that I am young, so that I may give my youth to you.

Giving, May, Youth

Things get very lonely in Washington sometimes. The real voice of the great people of America sometimes sounds faint and distant in that strange city. You hear politics until you wish that both parties were smothered in their own gas.

Lonely, Real, Party

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

There will be no greater burden on our generation than to organize the forces of liberty in our time in order to make our quest ofa new freedom for America.

Freedom, America, Our Generation

The competent leader of men cares little for the niceties of other peoples' characters: he cares much--everything--for the exterior uses to which they may be put.... These are men to be moved. How should he move them? He supplies the power; others simply the materials on which that power operates.

Moving, Character, Men

Scholarship cannot do without literature.... It needs literature to float it, to set it current, to authenticate it to all the race, to get it out of closets and into the brains of men who stir abroad.

Men, Race, Brain

Woodrow Wilson (1913). “Mere Literature”

There is a very holy and a very terrible isolation for the conscience of every man who seeks to read the destiny in affairs for others as well as for himself, for a nation as well as for individuals. That privacy no man can intrude upon. That lonely search of the spirit for the right perhaps no man can assist.

Lonely, Loneliness, Destiny

Woodrow Wilson (2015). “Wilson, Volume V: Campaigns for Progressivism and Peace, 1916-1917”, p.96, Princeton University Press

There is one thing that the American people always rise to and extend their hand to and that is the truth of justice, and of liberty, and of peace. We have accepted that truth and we are going to led by itand through us the world, out into pastures of quietness and peace such as the world never dreamed of before.

Peace, Truth, Hands

Woodrow Wilson, Albert Fried (1965). “A Day of Dedication”, New York : Macmillan [1965]

I must beg you to indulge me in the matter of hyphens.... You will find that I have marked out a great many in the proofs. We arein danger of Germanizing our printing by using them so much, and I have a very decided preference in the matter.

Style, Matter, Great Men

The light that shined upon the summit now seems almost to shine at our feet.

Peace, Feet, Light

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

The great war that broke so suddenly upon the world two years ago, and which has swept up within its flame so great a part of thecivilized world, has affected us very profoundly.... With its causes and its objects we are not concerned. The obscure fountains from which its stupendous flood has burst we are not interested to search for or explore.

War, Flames, Years

The growth of our nation and all its activities are in the hands of a few men.

Men, Hands, Growth

It is a protest against the way the world has worked. (explanation of Bolshevism)

World, Way, Protest

Your real statesman is first of all, and chief of all, a great human being, with an eye for all the great fields on which men likehimself struggle, with unflagging, pathetic hope, toward better things.... He is a guide, a counselor, a mentor, a servant, a friend of mankind.

Leadership, Real, Struggle

Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little. . . . We must strive for normalcy to reach stability.

Government, Presidential, Littles

George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, James Knox Polk, Zachary Taylor, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, James A. Garfield, Grover Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison, William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Baines Johnson, Richard Milhous Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama (2017). “Inaugural Speeches from the Presidents of the United States - Complete Edition”, p.211, e-artnow sro

It is easier to move a cemetery than to change a curriculum.

Moving, Curriculum, Easier

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

Quotes: 459

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