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• A powerful Navy we have always regarded as our proper and natural means of defense; and it has always been of defense that we have thought, never of aggression or of conquest. But who shall tell us now what sort of Navy to build? We shall take leave to be strong upon the seas, in the future as in the past; and there will be no thought of offense or provocation in that. Our ships are our natural bulwarks.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Strong, Powerful, Military

  Woodrow Wilson (2012). “President Wilson's Addresses”, p.154, tredition

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• I had rather be defeated in a cause that will ultimately triumph than triumph in a cause that will ultimately be defeated.

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  Inspirational, Success, Failure

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• From the dim morning hours of history when the father was king and priest down to this modern time of history's high noon when nations stand forth full grown and self-governed, the law of coherence and continuity in political development has suffered no serious breach.

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  Morning, Kings, Father

  Woodrow Wilson (1895). “The State: Elements of Historical and Practical Politics. A Sketch of Institutional History and Administration”

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• ...it would be a mistake...to ascribe to Roman legal conceptions an undivided sway over the development of law and institutions during the Middle Ages... The Laws of Moses as well as the laws of Rome contributed suggestions and impulse to the men and institutions which were to prepare the modern world; and if we could have but eyes to see... we should readily discover how very much besides religion we owe to the Jew.

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  Mistake, Eye, Men

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• There is no indispensable man.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Jobs, Men, Presidential

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

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• There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight.

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  Fighting, Men, Presidential

  Speech, Philadelphia, Pa., 10 May 1915

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• Open covenants of peace, openly arrived at.

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  Presidential, Covenant, League Of Nations

  "Fourteen Points" Address to Joint Session of Congress, 8 Jan. 1918

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• America is the only idealistic nation in the world.

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  America, Presidential, World

  Address supporting League of Nations, Sioux Falls, S.D., 8 Sept. 1919

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• The allied nations with the fullest concurrence of our government and people are agreed that in Palestine shall be laid the foundations of a Jewish Commonwealth.

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  Government, Israel, People

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link (1986). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• To think that I, the son ofthe manse, should be able to help restore the Holy Land to its people.

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  Son, Thinking, Land

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• A man has deprived himself of the best there is in the world who has deprived himself of this.

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  Bible, Men, Presidential

  "The Papers of Woodrow Wilson: 1909-1910".

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• There are blessed intervals when I forget by one means or another that I am President of the United States.

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  Blessed, Mean, Political

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link (1979). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• The Constitution was not made to fit us like a straitjacket. In its elasticity lies its chief greatness.

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  Lying, Greatness, Constitution

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link (1973). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• It would be the irony of fate if my administration had to deal chiefly with foreign affairs.

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  Fate, Would Be, Administration

  Woodrow Wilson (1956). “The Wilson reader”

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• We shall fight for a universal dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world itself at last free.

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  Peace, Fighting, Safety

  Woodrow Wilson, Ronald J. Pestritto (2005). “Woodrow Wilson: The Essential Political Writings”, p.257, Lexington Books

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• Statesmen have to bend to the collective will of their peoples or be broken.

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  Broken, Collectives, Statesmen

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• Every one at the bottom of his heart cherishes vanity; even the toad thinks himself good-looking,--"rather tawny perhaps, but look at his eye!

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  Heart, Eye, Thinking

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• No man ever saw the people of whom he forms a part. No man ever saw a government. I live in the midst of the Government of the United States, but I never saw the Government of the United States. Its personnel extends through all the nations, and across the seas, and into every corner of the world in the persons of the representatives of the United States in foreign
  capitals and in foreign centres of commerce.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Men, Sea, People

  Woodrow Wilson (1913). “Addresses, Messages and Speeches, 1897-”

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• Some Americans need hyphens in their names because only part of them has come over.

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  Names, Needs, Hyphens

  Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.30, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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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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• ... so far as religion is concerned, argument is adjourned.

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  Argument, Concerned

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• We are provincials no longer. The tragic events of the 30 months of vital turmoil through which we have just passed have made us citizens of the world. There can be no turning back.

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  Months, Events, Citizens

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• I am all kinds of a democrat, so far as I can discover but the root of the whole business is this, that I believe in the patriotism and energy and initiative of the average man.

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  Believe, Men, Average

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

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• Have you thought of the sufferings of Armenia? You poured out your money to help succor the Armenians after they suffered; now set your strength so that they shall never suffer again.

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  Suffering, Armenia, Helping

  Woodrow Wilson (1919). “Addresses of President Wilson: Boston, Mass., February 24, 1919. New York, N. Y., March 4, 1919”

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• Every country is renewed out of the unknown ranks and not out of the ranks of those already famous and powerful and in control.

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  Country, Powerful, Power

  Woodrow Wilson, Ronald J. Pestritto (2005). “Woodrow Wilson: The Essential Political Writings”, p.112, Lexington Books

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