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To conquer with arms is to make only a temporary conquest; to conquer the world by earning its esteem is to make a permanent conquest.

To conquer with arms is to make only a temporary conquest; to conquer the world by earning its esteem is to make a permanent conquest.

Conquer The World, Arms, Earning

Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.288, The Minerva Group, Inc.

Liberty does not consist in mere declarations of the rights of man. It consists in the translation of those declarations into definite action.

Men, Rights, President

Woodrow Wilson (2012). “President Wilson's Addresses”, p.108, tredition

The truth is we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless.

Truth, Heartless, Economic

Woodrow Wilson, Ronald J. Pestritto (2005). “Woodrow Wilson: The Essential Political Writings”, p.109, Lexington Books

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 forego the privileges of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks.

Class, Tasks, Want

"The Meaning of a Liberal Education". Address to the New York City High School Teachers Association, January 9, 1909.

No man has ever risen to the stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.

Spiritual, Men, Giving

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

We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.

Inspirational, Positive Thinking, Spiritual Vision

We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world.

Nwo, Free Opinion, World Government

Woodrow Wilson (2016). “The New Freedom: [Illustrated & Biography Added]”, p.129, eKitap Projesi

The white men were roused by a mere instinct of self-preservation—until at last there had sprung into existence a great Ku Klux Klan, a veritable empire of the South, to protect the Southern country.

Country, Men, Self

A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is privately concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men who, even if their action be honest and intended for the public interest, are necessarily concentrated upon the great undertakings in which their own money is involved and who necessarily, by very reason of their own limitations, chill and check and destroy genuine economic freedom.

Men, Hands, Growth

Woodrow Wilson (2016). “The New Freedom: [Illustrated & Biography Added]”, p.117, eKitap Projesi via PublishDrive

The object of love is to serve, not to win

Love, Valentines Day, Flower

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

Segregation is not humiliating but a benefit...

Benefits, Segregation, Humiliating

Defending the re-segregation of federal offices, in Conference with members of the National Association for Equal Rights, November 1914.

Big business is not dangerous because it is big, but because its bigness is an unwholesome inflation created by privileges and exemptions which it ought not to enjoy.

Business, Democracy, Corporations

Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1978). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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.

Love, President, Liberty

Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.20, The Minerva Group, Inc.

I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.

Inspirational, Motivational, Patriotic

"American Politics and the Party System". Book by Hugh A. Bone, p. 482, 1949.

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

Strength, Perseverance, Adversity

Woodrow Wilson (2012). “The New Freedom A Call For the Emancipation of the Generous Energies of a People”, p.60, tredition

Progressiveness means not standing still when everything else is moving.

Moving, Mean, Standing Still

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.

Adversity, Men, Bravery

Woodrow Wilson, Ray Stannard Baker, Howard Seavoy Leach (1927). “The Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson: The new democracy; presidential messages, addresses, and other papers (1913-1917)”

I am a most unhappy man. I accidentally ruined my country. A great industrial nation is now controlled by its system of credit. Our government is no longer based on the freedom of opinion, nor on the conviction and the majority decision, it is now a government which is subjected to the conviction and the compulsion of a small group of dominant men.

Country, Men, Decision

Never murder a man when he's busy committing suicide.

Suicide, Men, Politics

The Americans who went to Europe to die are a unique breed.... (They) crossed the seas to a foreign land to fight for a cause which they did not pretend was peculiarly their own, which they knew was the cause of humanity and mankind. These Americans gave the greatest of all gifts, the gift of life and the gift of spirit.

Fighting, Unique, Europe

When correcting a child, the goal is to apply light, not heat.

Children, Parenting, Light

There is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.

World Government, Nwo, Bankers

"The New Freedom". Illustrated & Biography Added,

[We are] no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and the duress of small groups of dominant men.

Men, Nwo, Free Opinion

Woodrow Wilson (2012). “The New Freedom A Call For the Emancipation of the Generous Energies of a People”, p.136, tredition

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

Speech to the National Press Club, The Independent, Volume 77, March 20, 1914.

What is the use of voting? We know that the machines of both parties are subsidized by the same persons, and therefore it is useless to turn in either direction.

Party, Voting, Machines

Woodrow Wilson, Ronald J. Pestritto (2005). “Woodrow Wilson: The Essential Political Writings”, p.115, Lexington Books

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

Quotes: 459

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