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• My hope is ... that we may recover ... something of a renewal of that vision of the law with which men may be supposed to have started out with in the old days of the oracles, who communed with the intimations of divinity.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Men, Law, Vision

  Woodrow Wilson (2012). “President Wilson's Addresses”, p.127, tredition

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• Your enlightenment depends on the company you keep. You do not know the world until you know the men who have possessed it and tried its wares before you were ever given your brief run upon it.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Running, Men, Company You Keep

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

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• The profession I chose was politics; the profession I entered was law. I entered the one because I thought it would lead to the other.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Law, Profession

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

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• That is Gladstone, the greatest statesman that ever lived. I intend to be a statesman, too.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Ambition, Gladstone, Statesmen

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• I confess my belief in the common man.... The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.... The man who is in the melee knows what blows are being struck and what blood is being drawn.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Swimming, Blow, Men

  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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• The success of a party means little except when the nation is using that party for a large and definite purpose. No one can mistake the purpose for which the nation now seeks to use the Democratic party. It seeks to use it to interpret a change in its own plans and point of view.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Party, Mean, Views

  "Woodrow Wilson: Essential Writings and Speeches of the Scholar-president".

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• Politics is a war of causes; a joust of principles. Government is too serious a matter to admit of meaningless courtesies.

  Woodrow Wilson

  War, Government, Principles

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

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• If you would be a leader of men, you must lead your own generation, not the next.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Men, Leader, Would Be

  Woodrow Wilson, Ronald J. Pestritto (2005). “Woodrow Wilson: The Essential Political Writings”, p.216, Lexington Books

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• Interest does not tie nations together; it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Sympathy, Ties, Understanding

  Woodrow Wilson (2012). “President Wilson's Addresses”, p.58, tredition

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• Some people have a large circle of friends while others have only friends that they like.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Circles, People, Circle Of Friends

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• Only free peoples can hold their purpose and their honor steady to a common end, and prefer the interests of mankind to any narrow interest of their own.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Freedom, Honor, Purpose

  War Message, delivered 2 April 1917

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• All the extraordinary men I have ever known were chiefly extraordinary in their own estimation.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Self Esteem, Men, Self Respect

  "The papers of Woodrow Wilson".

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• The flag is a flag of liberty of opinion as well as of political liberty.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Carpe Diem, Political, Liberty

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1971). “Papers: Edited by Arthur S. Link and Others”

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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.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Men, Criticism, Shouting

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• Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Luxury, Political, Politics

  Woodrow Wilson, Ronald J. Pestritto (2005). “Woodrow Wilson: The Essential Political Writings”, p.224, Lexington Books

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• ...to make the world safe for democracy.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Strong Women, Tyrants, Differences

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1985). “Papers: Edited by Arthur S. Link and Others”

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• One cannot pay the price of self-respect.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Self Esteem, Pay The Price, Self Respect

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

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• I lived a dream life (almost too exclusively, perhaps) when I was a lad and even now my thought goes back for refreshment to thosedays when all the world seemed to be a place of heroic adventure in which one's heart must keep its own counsel.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Dream, Heart, Adventure

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1977). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson: 1911-1912”

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• A living thing is born.

  Woodrow Wilson

  League, Born, League Of Nations

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

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• Property as compared with humanity, as compared with the red blood in the American people, must take second place, not first place.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Blood, People, Red Lipstick

  Woodrow Wilson (1956). “A Crossroads of Freedom: The 1912 Campaign Speeches”

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• Americanism consists in utterly believing in the principles of America.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Military, Believe, America

  Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.130, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• If Freud had worn a kilt in the prescribed Highland manner he might have had a very different attitude to genitals.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Attitude, Different, Kilts

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

  Woodrow Wilson

  Political, Campaigns, Politics

  Woodrow Wilson (1966). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• Freedom exists only where the people take care of the government.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Freedom, Military, Government

  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

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• The trouble with the theory [of limited and divided government] is that government is not a machine, but a living thing. This is where the living and breathing constitution comes from. It is modified by its environment, necessitated by its tasks, shaped to its functions by the sheer pressure of life.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Government, Breathing, Tasks

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