Woodrow Wilson Quotes

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• I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the civilized world - 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 duress of a small group of dominant men.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Country, Men, Nwo

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• If you lose your wealth, you have lost nothing; if you lose your health, you have lost something; but if you lose your character, you have lost everything.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Character, Healthy, Lost Everything

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• Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of somebody, are afraid of something. They know that 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.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Fear, Men, Nwo

  "The New Freedom : A Call For the Emancipation of the Generous Energies of a People" by Woodrow Wilson, (p. 13), 1913.

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  You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Life, Motivational, Inspiring

  Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.15, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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  The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Government, Hands, People

  Woodrow Wilson, Ronald J. Pestritto (2005). “Woodrow Wilson: The Essential Political Writings”, p.117, Lexington Books

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

  Woodrow Wilson

  Change, Clever, Christian Inspirational

  Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.135, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• A man who thinks of himself as belonging to a particular national group in America has not yet become an American. And the man who goes among you to trade upon your nationality is no worthy son to live under the Stars and Stripes.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Stars, Son, Men

  Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.86, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Government, Democracy, Principles

  Woodrow Wilson, Howard Seavoy Leach (1970). “The Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson: Authorized Ed”

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• The difference between a strong man and a weak one is that the former does not give up after a defeat.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Strong, Giving Up, Men

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  The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Leadership, Patriotic, Voice

  Woodrow Wilson (1965). “The Political Thought of Woodrow Wilson”

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• We are not put into this world to sit still and know; we are put into it to act.

  Woodrow Wilson

  World, This World, Stills

  Woodrow Wilson, Mario R. DiNunzio (2006). “Woodrow Wilson: Essential Writings and Speeches of the Scholar-president”, p.127, NYU Press

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• We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Presidential, Tragedy, Citizens

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• The seed of revolution is repression.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Revolution, Revolutionary, Seeds

  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)”

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• ...I do not want a government that will take care of me, I want a government that will make other men take their hands off me so I can take care of myself.

  Woodrow Wilson

  War, Men, Hands

  Woodrow Wilson, Mario R. DiNunzio (2006). “Woodrow Wilson: Essential Writings and Speeches of the Scholar-president”, p.359, NYU Press

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• Government ought to be all outside and no inside. . . . Everybody knows that corruption thrives in secret places, and avoids public places, and we believe it a fair presumption that secrecy means impropriety.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Believe, Mean, Government

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• Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Power, Government, Historical

  "The Political Thought of Woodrow Wilson".

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• [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.

  Woodrow Wilson

  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

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

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  Strength, Perseverance, Adversity

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

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

  Woodrow Wilson

  Kings, Cynical, Democracy

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link (1976). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• Has justice ever grown in the soil of absolute power? Has not justice always come from the ... heart and spirit of men who resist power?

  Woodrow Wilson

  Heart, Men, Justice

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

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• I can imagine no greater disservice to the country than to establish a system of censorship that would deny to the people of a free republic like our own their indisputable right to criticize their own public officials. While exercising the great powers of the office I hold, I would regret in a crisis like the one through which we are now passing to lose the benefit of patriotic and intelligent criticism.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Country, Regret, Patriotic

  Woodrow Wilson (1983). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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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.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Love, President, Liberty

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

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• I am sorry for those that disagree with me because I know that they are wrong.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Funny, Sorry, Knows

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• The fewer the desires, the more peace.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Desire, Fewer

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• I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool, the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Encouraging, 4th Of July, Men

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1988). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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