Woodrow Wilson Quotes - Page 6

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• No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Men, Poverty, Worship

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• It must be a peace without victory... Victory would mean peace forced upon the loser, a victor's terms imposed upon the vanquished. It would be accepted in humiliation, under duress, at an intolerable sacrifice, and would leave a sting, a resentment, a bitter memory upon which terms of peace would rest, not permanently, but only as upon quicksand. Only a peace between equals can last.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Memories, War, Mean

  Address to the Senate, January 22, 1917.

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• We cannot be separated in interest or divided in purpose. We stand together until the end.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Inspirational, Unity, Together

  The Fourteen Points, delivered 8 January 1918

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• We ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialists--believers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Government, Body, Socialism

  Woodrow Wilson (1898). “The State: Elements of Historical and Practical Politics”

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• Sciencehas won for us a great liberty in the physical world, a liberty from superstitious fear and from disease, a freedom touse nature as a familiar servant; but it has not freed us from ourselves.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Science, Liberty, World

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link (1971). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.

  Woodrow Wilson

  4th Of July, Patriotic, America

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

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• You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand

  Woodrow Wilson

  Spiritual Vision, Achievement, World Vision

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

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• Neutrality is a negative word. It is a word that does not express what America ought to feel. America has a heart, and that heart throbs with all sorts of intense sympathies... We are not trying to keep out of trouble; we are trying to preserve the foundations upon which peace can be rebuilt.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Peace, Negative Words, America

  "Woodrow Wilson: Selections for Today".

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• Benevolence does not consist in those who are prosperous pitying and helping those who are not. It consists in fellow feeling that puts you upon actually the same level with the fellow who suffers.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Feelings, Suffering, Doe

  Woodrow Wilson (1956). “A crossroads of freedom, the 1912 campaign speeches”

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• Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the sovereignty of self-governing people.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Self, America, People

  Woodrow Wilson (1916). “Addresses of President Wilson, January 27-February 3, 1916”

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• The flag of the United States has not been created by rhetorical sentences in declarations of independence and in bills of rights. It has been created by the experience of a great people, and nothing is written upon it that has not been written by their life. It is the embodiment, not of a sentiment, but of a history.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Rights, People, Independence

  Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.91, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• Men grow by having responsibility laid upon them.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Responsibility, Men, Grows

  Woodrow Wilson (1929). “When a Man Comes to Himself”, p.8, Library of Alexandria

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• Conformity will be the only virtue and any man who refuses to conform will have to pay the penalty.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Men, President, Pay

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• America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us...

  Woodrow Wilson

  Patriotic, America, Individuality

  Speech on Military Preparedness, Pittsburgh, January 29, 1916.

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• This book [the Bible] speaks both the voice of God and the voice of humanity, for there is told in it the most convincing of human experience that has ever been written...and those who heed that story will know their strength and happiness and success are all summed up in the exhortation, "Fear God and keep His commandments."

  Woodrow Wilson

  Book, Voice, Humanity

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• Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Understanding, Soil, Fruit

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• If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Country, Men, Usa

  Woodrow Wilson (2012). “The New Freedom A Call For the Emancipation of the Generous Energies of a People”, p.190, tredition

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• The shadows that now lie dark upon our path will soon be dispelled and we shall walk with the light all about us if we but be true to ourselves.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Lying, Dark, Light

  Woodrow Wilson (2015). “Wilson, Volume V: Campaigns for Progressivism and Peace, 1916-1917”, p.368, Princeton University Press

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• It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilizationitself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things we have always carried closest to our hearts.

  Woodrow Wilson

  War, Heart, Fighting

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

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• I am not sure that it is of the first importance that you should be happy. Many an unhappy man has been of deep service to himself and to the world.

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  Happiness, Men, Unhappy

  Woodrow Wilson (1974). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• Washington has seldom seen so numerous, so industrious or so insidious a lobby. There is every evidence that money without limit is being spent to sustain this lobby.... I know that in this I am speaking for the members of the two houses, who would rejoice as much as I would to be released from this unbearable situation.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Two, House, Limits

  Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.9, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• Our civilization cannot survive materially unless it is redeemed spiritually. It can be saved only by becoming permeated with the Spirit of Christ, and being made free and happy by practices which spring out of that spirit. Only thus can discontent be driven out and all shadows lifted from the road ahead.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Spring, Practice, Civilization

  Woodrow Wilson, United States. President (1913-1921 : Wilson) (1924). “The messages and papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• May it not suffice for me to say ... that of course like every other man of intelligence and education I do believe in organic evolution. It surprises me that at this late date such questions should be raised.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Believe, Men, Presidential

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link (1993). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• A presidential campaign may easily degenerate into a mere personal contest, and so lose its real dignity. There is no indispensable man.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Real, Men, Presidential

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

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• The Bible is the one supreme source of revelation of the meaning of life, the nature of God and spiritual nature and need of men. It is the only guide of life which really leads the spirit in the way of peace and salvation.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Faith, Spiritual, Men

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