Woodrow Wilson Quotes - Page 3

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• All things come to him who waits - provided he knows what he is waiting for.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Patience, Waiting, Be Patient

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• There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Leadership, Sports, Spiritual

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• I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Speech to the National Press Club, The Independent, Volume 77, March 20, 1914.

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• Liberty does not consist in mere declarations of the rights of man. It consists in the translation of those declarations into definite action.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Men, Rights, President

  Woodrow Wilson (2012). “President Wilson's Addresses”, p.108, tredition

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• Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Work, Perfect, Trust In God

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1994). “Papers”

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• I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Patriotic

  "American Politics and the Party System". Book by Hugh A. Bone, p. 482, 1949.

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• War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.

  Woodrow Wilson

  War, Names, Affair

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link (1980). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• The fewer the desires, the more peace.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Desire, Fewer

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• The history of liberty is the history of limitations on the power of government, not the increase of it. When we resist, therefore, the concentration of power, we are resisting the processes of death, because concentration of power is what always precedes the destruction of human liberties.

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  Death, Power, Government

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• Unless justice be done to others it will not be done to us.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Justice, Done

  The Fourteen Points, delivered 8 January 1918

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• A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Men, Thinking, Political

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• Big business is not dangerous because it is big, but because its bigness is an unwholesome inflation created by privileges and exemptions which it ought not to enjoy.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Business, Democracy, Corporations

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

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• The world must be made safe for democracy.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Presidential, Democracy, World

  Address to Joint Session of Congress asking for declaration of war, 2 Apr. 1917 See ThomasWolfe 1

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• The world can be at peace only if the world is stable, and there can be no stability where the will is in rebellion, where there is not tranquility of spirit and a sense of justice, of freedom, and of right.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Peace, Justice, World

  Woodrow Wilson, Mario R. DiNunzio (2006). “Woodrow Wilson: Essential Writings and Speeches of the Scholar-president”, p.395, NYU Press

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• A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Grandmother, Political, Doubt

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• Is there any man here or any woman, let me say is there any child here, who does not know that the seed of war in the modern world is industrial and commercial rivalry?

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  Children, War, Men

  "A Day of Dedication".

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• Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.

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  Accomplish Nothing, Luxury, Excess

  Woodrow Wilson, Albert Fried (1965). “A Day of Dedication”, New York : Macmillan [1965]

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• Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

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  Ignorance, Responsibility, Fundamentals

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• As a matter of fact and experience, the more power is divided the more irresponsible it becomes.

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  Power, Matter, Facts

  Woodrow Wilson (2012). “Congressional Government: A Study in American Politics”, p.77, Courier Corporation

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• 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.

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  World Government, Nwo, Bankers

  "The New Freedom". Illustrated & Biography Added,

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• No man has ever risen to the stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Spiritual, Men, Giving

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

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• A fault which humbles a person is of more use to him or her than a good action which puffs him or her up.

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  Humility, Puff, Use

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• I am sorry for men who do not read the Bible every day. I wonder why they deprive themselves of the strength and pleasure.

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  Bible, Sorry, Men

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

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• The seed of revolution is repression.

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  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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• In fundamental theory socialism and democracy are almost if not quite one and the same. They both rest at bottom upon the absolute right of the community to determine its own destiny and that of its members. Men as communities are supreme over men as individuals. Limits of wisdom and convenience to the public control there may be: limits of principle there are, upon strict analysis, none.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Destiny, Men, Rights

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1968). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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