Woodrow Wilson quotes - page 7

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. (Woodrow Wilson)
As compared with the college politician, the real article seems like an amateur. View quote
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The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation. View quote
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The world is not looking for servants, there are plenty of these, but for masters, men who form their purposes and then carry them out, let the consequences be what they may. View quote
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What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind. View quote
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My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business, that it is something we owe to each other to understand and discuss with absolute frankness. View quote
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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. View quote
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Princeton is no longer a thing for Princeton men to please themselves with. Princeton is a thing with which Princeton men must satisfy the country. View quote
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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. View quote
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The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous, event of our generation. View quote
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When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing. (Woodrow Wilson)
I am inclined to follow the course suggested by a friend of mine who says that he has always followed the rule never to murder a man who is committing suicide, and clearly this misdirected gentleman is committing suicide slowly but sureley. View quote
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I have not written a book since the campaign. I did not write this book at all. It is the result of the editorial literary skill of Mr. William Bayard Hale, who has put together here in their right sequences the more suggestive portions of my campaign speeches. And yet it is not a book of campaign speeches. It is a discussion of a number of very vital subjects in the free form of extemporaneously spoken words. I have left the sentences in the form in which they were stenographically reported. I have not tried to alter the easy-going and often colloquial phraseology in which they were uttered from the platform, in the hope that they would seem the more fresh and spontaneous because of their very lack of pruning and recasting. View quote
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I have spoken thus only that the whole world may know the true spirit of America -- that men everywhere may know that our passion for justice and for self-government is no mere passion of words but a passion which, once set in action, must be satisfied. The power of the United States is a menace to no nation or people. It will never be used in aggression or for the aggrandisement of any selfish interest of our own. lt springs out of freedom and is for the service of freedom. View quote
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It is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shouting at you. View quote
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In the last analysis, my fellow country men, as we in America would be the first to claim, a people are responsible for the acts of government. View quote
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America is not a mere body of traders it is a body of free men. Our greatness is built upon our freedom is moral, not material. We have a great ardor for gain but we have a deep passion for the rights of man. View quote
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As a beauty I'm not a great star, There are others more handsome by far, But my face, I don't mind it, Because I'm behind it - Tis the people in front that I jar. View quote
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Only a peace between equals can last. Only a peace the very principle of which is equality and a common participation in a common benefit. View quote
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The world must be made safe for democracy. View quote
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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. There are many voices of counsel, but few voices of vision; there is much excitement and feverish activity, but little concert of thoughtful purpose. We are distressed by our own ungoverned, undirected energies and do many things, but nothing long. It is our duty to find ourselves. (Woodrow Wilson)
We cannot have general peace for the asking, or by the mere arrangements of a peace conference. It cannot be pieeed together out of individual understandings between powerful states. All the parties to this war must join in the settlement of every issue anywhere involved in it; beeause what we are seeing is a peace that we can all unite to guarantee and maintain and every item of it must be submitted to the common judgment whether it be right and fair, an act of justice, rather than a bargain between sovereigns. View quote
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We are a democracy, where the majority are the masters, or all the hopes and purposes of the men who founded this government have been defeated and forgotten. In America there is but one way by which great reforms can be accomplished and the relief sought by classes obtained, and that is through the orderly processes of representative government. Those who would propose any other method of reform are enemies of this country. View quote
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American industry is not free, as once it was free; American enterprise is not free; the man with only a little capital is finding it harder to get into the field, more and more impossible to compete with the big fellow. View quote
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We are at the parting of the ways. View quote
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