Woodrow Wilson Quotes - Page 17

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• It must be a peace without victory

  Woodrow Wilson

  Victory

  Address to Senate on essential terms of peace in Europe, 22 Jan. 1917

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• A right is worth fighting for only when it can be put into operation.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Freedom, Fighting, Liberty

  Woodrow Wilson, Howard Seavoy Leach (1925). “The Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson: College and state, educational, literary and political papers (1875-1913)”

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• No man can be just who is not free.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Men, Justice

  Woodrow Wilson, Ollie M. James (1912). “Speech of Governor Wilson Accepting the Democratic Nomination for President of the United States: Together with the Speech of Notification Delivered by Hon. Ollie M. James at Seagirt, N.J., August 7, 1912”

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• Politics is a war of causes; a joust of principles.

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  War, Presidential, Principles

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

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• Man is much more than a 'rational being' and lives more by sympathies and impressions than by conclusions. It darkens his eyes and dries up the wells of his humanity to be forever in search of doctrine. We need wholesome, experiencing na­tures, I dare affirm, much more than we need sound reasoning.

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  Eye, Men, Forever

  Woodrow Wilson (2005). “On Being Human”, p.20, Cosimo, Inc.

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• There is no indispensable man.

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  Jobs, Men, Presidential

  Speech accepting Democratic presidential nomination, Seagirt, N.J., 7 Aug. 1912

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• We are in the presence of a new organization of society. Our life has broken away from the past.

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  Past, Organization, Broken

  Woodrow Wilson, Ronald J. Pestritto (2005). “Woodrow Wilson: The Essential Political Writings”, p.107, Lexington Books

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• By 'radical,' I understand one who goes too far; by 'conservative,' one who does not go far enough; by 'reactionary,' one who won't go at all.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Political, Doe, Radicalism

  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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• They do not need our praise. They do not need that our admiration should sustain them. There is no immortality that is safer than theirs. We come not for their sakes but for our own, in order that we may drink at the same springs of inspiration from which they themselves drank.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Memorial Day, Spring, Inspiration

  Woodrow Wilson (2012). “President Wilson's Addresses”, p.96, tredition

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• The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Military, Honor, Comfort

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

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• We can afford to exercise the self-restraint of a really great nation which realizes its own strength and scorns to misuse it.

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  Exercise, Self, Realizing

  Woodrow Wilson, Mario R. DiNunzio (2006). “Woodrow Wilson: Essential Writings and Speeches of the Scholar-president”, p.385, NYU Press

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• I can predict with absolute certainty that within another generation there will be another world war if the nations of the world do not concert the method by which to prevent it.

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  Change, War, Generations

  Woodrow Wilson (1919). “Addresses of President Wilson”

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• The only place in the world that nothing has to be explained to me is the South.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Southern, World, Places In The World

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• Whatever may be said against the chewing of tobacco, this at least can be said of it, that it gives a man time to think between sentences.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Men, Thinking, Giving

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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.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Writing, Men, Hands

  Woodrow Wilson, Ronald J. Pestritto (2005). “Woodrow Wilson: The Essential Political Writings”, p.211, Lexington Books

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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.

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  Government, Our Generation, People

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

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• While we are fighting for freedom, we must see, among other things, that labor is free.

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  Fighting, Presidential, Fighting For Freedom

  Woodrow Wilson (2012). “President Wilson's Addresses”, p.306, tredition

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• I want the people to love me, but I suppose they never will.

  Woodrow Wilson

  People, Want

  Woodrow Wilson (1956). “The Wilson reader”

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• I do not want to live under a philanthropy. I do not want to be taken care of by the government.... We do not want a benevolent government. We want a free and a just government.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Taken, Government, Care

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• There is a very holy and a very terrible isolation for the conscience of every man who seeks to read the destiny in affairs for others as well as for himself, for a nation as well as for individuals. That privacy no man can intrude upon. That lonely search of the spirit for the right perhaps no man can assist.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Lonely, Loneliness, Destiny

  Woodrow Wilson (2015). “Wilson, Volume V: Campaigns for Progressivism and Peace, 1916-1917”, p.96, Princeton University Press

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• It is not men that interest or disturb me primarily; it is ideas. Ideas live; men die.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Men, Ideas, Interest

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• There is here a great melting pot in which we must compound a precious metal. That metal is the metal of nationality.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Melting Pot, Precious Metal, Compounds

  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 commands of democracy are as imperative as its privileges and opportunities are wide and generous. Its compulsion is upon us.

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  Responsibility, Opportunity, Democracy

  Woodrow Wilson (2012). “President Wilson's Addresses”, p.239, tredition

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• There has been something crude and heartless and unfeeling in our haste to suceed and be great. Our thought has been 'Let every man look out for himself, let every generation look out for itself,' while we reared giant machinery which made it impossible that any but those who stood at the levers of control should have a chance to look out for themselves.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Success, Men, Should Have

  First Inaugural Address, delivered 4 April 1913

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• Death comes along like a gas bill one can't payand that's all one can sayabout it.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Bills, Gas

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