Woodrow Wilson Quotes

Woodrow Wilson was the 45th state governer of New Jersey and later 28th President of United States. So if you are searching for Woodrow Wilson quotes, now you don't have to search for them anymore. As here I have compiled down some of the best Woodrow Wilson quotes and sayings. Just hope you will like the quote compilation and share some of your favorite Woodrow Wison quotes with your family and friends.

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
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Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
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The world has a habit of going on.
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When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.
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We are not put into this world to sit still and know; we are put into it to act.
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Liberty is its own reward.
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The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.
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We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.
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A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits.
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The object of education is not merely to draw out the powers of the individual mind: it is rather its right object to draw all minds to a proper adjustment to the physical and social world in which they are to have their life and their development: to enlighten, strengthen and make fit.
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The only reason I read a book is because I cannot see and converse with the man who wrote it.
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No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acquiescence.
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We should not only use all the brains we have but all that we can borrow.
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Only peace between equals can last.
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I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.
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How is the schoolmaster, the nation, to know which boy needs the whipping?
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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.
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[o]f 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.
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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!
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Some people have a large circle of friends while others have only friends that they like.
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No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation.
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Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions; with their individuality and independence of choice in matters of business they have lost all their individual choice within the field of morals.
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If the colored people made a mistake in voting for me, they ought to correct it.
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War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.
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You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
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There is more of a nation's politics to be got out of its poetry than out of all its systematic writers on public affairs and constitutions.
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The seed of revolution is repression.
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If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
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I not only use all the brains that I have, but all I can borrow.
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You are here to enrich the world and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
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If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.
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A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what we have been about.
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Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.
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America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.
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If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if fifteen minutes, three days; if half an hour, two days; if an hour, I am ready now.
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You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world.
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But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts
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You know how impossible it is, in short, to have a free nation if it is a military nation and under military orders
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The way to stop financial joy-riding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile
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Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of government is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is the history of the limitation of government, not the increase of it.
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