Woodrow Wilson Quotes

Woodrow Wilson (70)

Birth:	28th December, 1856
Death:	3rd February, 1924
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Historian, Politician, President

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• America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal – to discover and maintain liberty among men.

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• Tell me what is right and I will fight for it.

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• 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.

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• Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

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• The seed of revolution is repression.

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• The question of armaments, whether on land or sea, is the most immediately and intensely practical question connected with the future fortunes of nations and of mankind.

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• If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

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• America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.

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• We live in an age disturbed, confused, bewildered, afraid of its own forces, in search not merely of its road but even of its direction.

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• One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.

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• That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.

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• If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. Character is a by-product, and any man who devotes himself to its cultivation in his own case will become a selfish prig.

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• You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape.

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• There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.

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• We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study.

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• Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.

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• If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it..

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• Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.

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• The men who act stand nearer to the mass of man than the men who write; and it is in their hands that new thought gets its translation into the crude language of deeds.

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• The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.

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