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There is no indispensable man.

Woodrow Wilson

Jobs, Men, Presidential

Speech accepting Democratic presidential nomination, Seagirt, N.J., 7 Aug. 1912

It recognizes no morality but a sham morality meant for deceit, no honor even among thieves and of a thievish sort, no force but physical force, no intellectual power but cunning, no disgrace but failure, no crime but stupidity.

Woodrow Wilson

Stupidity, Intellectual, Honor

Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1968). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

Open covenants of peace, openly arrived at.

Woodrow Wilson

Presidential, Covenant, League Of Nations

"Fourteen Points" Address to Joint Session of Congress, 8 Jan. 1918

Some Americans need hyphens in their names because only part of them has come over.

Woodrow Wilson

Names, Needs, Hyphens

Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.30, The Minerva Group, Inc.

America is the only idealistic nation in the world.

Woodrow Wilson

America, Presidential, World

Address supporting League of Nations, Sioux Falls, S.D., 8 Sept. 1919

No man ever saw the people of whom he forms a part. 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. Its personnel extends through all the nations, and across the seas, and into every corner of the world in the persons of the representatives of the United States in foreign capitals and in foreign centres of commerce.

Woodrow Wilson

Men, Sea, People

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

At last a vision has been vouchsafed to us of our life as a whole. We see the bad with the good.... With this vision we approach new affairs. Our duty is to cleanse, to reconsider, to restore, to correct the evil without impairing the good, to purify and humanize every process of our common life, without weakening or sentimentalizing it.

Woodrow Wilson

Evil, Vision, Lasts

First Inaugural Address, delivered 4 April 1913

A man has deprived himself of the best there is in the world who has deprived himself of this.

Woodrow Wilson

Bible, Men, Presidential

"The Papers of Woodrow Wilson: 1909-1910".

The westward march has stopped, upon the final plains of the Pacific; and now the plot thickenswith the change, the pause, the settlement, our people draw into closer groups, stand face to face, to know each other and be known.

Woodrow Wilson

People, Faces, Groups