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Woodrow Wilson Quotes - Page 7

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We cannot be separated in interest or divided in purpose. We stand together until the end.

We cannot be separated in interest or divided in purpose. We stand together until the end.

Inspirational, Unity, Together

The Fourteen Points, delivered 8 January 1918

For my part, I am very much more afraid of the man who does a bad thing and does not know it is bad than of the man who does a bad thing and knows it is bad; because I think that in public affairs stupidity is more dangerous than knavery, because harder to fight and dislodge.

Fighting, Government, Stupidity

"The New Freedom".

...men are not put into this world to go the path of ease, they are put into this world to go the path of pain and struggle.

Pain, War, Struggle

Woodrow Wilson (1976). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson: 1910”

The cure for bad politics is the same as the cure for tuberculosis. It is living in the open.

Tuberculosis, Cures, Bad Politics

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

To us in America, the reflections of Armistice Day will be filled with solemn pride in the heroism of those who died in the country's service and with gratitude for the victory, both because of the thing from which it has freed us and because of the opportunity it has given America to show her sympathy with peace and justice in the councils of the nations.

Country, Gratitude, Veterans Day

Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link (1991). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson”

No task, rightly done, is truly private. It is part of the world s work.

Work, Tasks, Done

Woodrow Wilson (1972). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson”

We must believe the things We teach our children

Children, Believe, Teach

It is the object of learning, not only to satisfy the curiosity and perfect the spirits of ordinary men, but also to advance civilization.

Learning, Men, Civilization

I could see now that a literary education did not fit one for the popular novelist's trade.Once you had started using words like flavicomous or acroamatic, because you liked the sound of them, you were lost.

Sound, Novelists, Using Words

I have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty, and business liberty, and every other kind of liberty, in the phrase that is common in the sporting world, 'A free field and no favor.'

Business, Equality, Liberty

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

A man's rootage is more important than his leafage.

Men, Important

Remember that God ordained that I should be the next president of the United States. Neither you nor any other mortal or mortals could have prevented this.

President, United States, Next

"Woodrow Wilson: A Psychological Study". Book by Sigmund Freud and William Christian Bullitt, Jr., 1966.

The Bible is the one supreme source of revelation of the meaning of life, the nature of God and spiritual nature and need of men. It is the only guide of life which really leads the spirit in the way of peace and salvation.

Faith, Spiritual, Men

Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.

Selfishness, Agents, Confidential

Woodrow Wilson, Mario R. DiNunzio (2006). “Woodrow Wilson: Essential Writings and Speeches of the Scholar-president”, p.101, NYU Press

If you wish your children to be Christians you must really take the trouble to be Christian yourselves. Those are the only terms upon which the home will work the gracious miracle.

Christian, Children, Home

Woodrow Wilson, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1966). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse. Untrammeled reasoning is the indulgence of the philosopher, of the dreamer of sweet dreams.

Dream, Sweet, Luxury

Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link (1990). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson”

America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.

Ostriches, America, Presidential

Speech at Des Moines, 1 Feb. 1916, in New York Times 2 Feb. 1916, p. 1

I believe that soldiers will bear me out in saying that both come in time of battle. I take it that the moral courage comes in going into the battle, and the physical courage in staying in.

Believe, Soldier, Battle

Woodrow Wilson (2012). “President Wilson's Addresses”, p.98, tredition

It's harder for a leader to be born in a palace than to be born in a cabin.

Leader, Palaces, Cabins

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

If young gentlemen get from their years in college only manliness, esprit de corps, a release of their social gifts, a training ingive and take, a catholic taste in men and the standards of true sportsmen, they have gained much but they have not gained what a college should give them. It should give them insight into the things of the mind and the spiritthe consciousness of having taken on them the vows of true enlightenment and of having undergone the discipline, never to be shaken off, of those who seek wisdom in candor, with faithful labor and travail of spirit.

Taken, College, Men

Today's greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow.

Procrastination, Saving, Today

You have the greatest soul, the noblest nature, the sweetest, most loving heart I have ever known, and my love, my reverence, my admiration for you, you have increased in one evening as I should have thought only a lifetime of intimate, loving association could have increased them. You are more wonderful and lovely in my eyes than you ever were before; and my pride and joy and gratitude that you should love me with such a perfect love are beyond all expression, except in some great poem which I cannot write.

Gratitude, Writing, Heart

I had rather have everybody on my side than be armed to the teeth.

Teeth, Sides

Woodrow Wilson, United States. President (1913-1921 : Wilson) (1924). “The messages and papers of Woodrow Wilson”

To be free is not necessarily to be wise. Wisdom comes with counsel, with the frank and free conference of untrammeled men united in the common interest.

Wise, Wisdom, Men

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

Since trade ignores national boundaries and the manufacturer insists on having the world as a market, the flag of his nation must follow him, and the doors of the nations which are closed against him must be battered down. Concessions obtained by financiers must be safeguarded by ministers of state, even if the sovereignty of unwilling nations be outraged in the process. Colonies must be obtained or planted, in order that no useful corner of the world may be overlooked or left unused.

Doors, Order, Flags

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

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

Quotes: 459

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