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Woodrow T. Wilson

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Few American presidents have been unhappier or lonelier in office than Woodrow Wilson.
JILL LEPORE
Woodrow Wilson and William Howard Taft both gave commencement speeches here.
MIKE ROGERS
I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by it's system of cred...
WOODROW T. WILSON
I read my first book on Woodrow Wilson at age 15, and I was hooked.
A. SCOTT BERG
Woodrow Wilson called for leaders who, by boldly interpreting the nation's conscience, could lift a ...
JAMES MACGREGOR BURNS
It's been the same story ever since I can remember, ever since Wilson – the Republicans don't do a...
JOHN UPDIKE
Woodrow Wilson called for leaders who, by boldly interpreting the nation's conscience, could lif...
JAMES MACGREGOR BURNS
There should be some good teams up there — Woodrow Wilson and Spring Valley come to mind right off...
CRYSTAL HACKNEY
There should be some good teams up there — Woodrow Wilson and Spring Valley come to mind right off ...
CRYSTAL HACKNEY
Back a hundred years ago, especially around Woodrow Wilson, what happened in this country is we took...
RON PAUL
They're nice ideals, appropriate especially in this setting celebrating Woodrow Wilson, but they're ...
JOSEPH NYE
There is a power so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive tha...
WOODROW T. WILSON
Following graduation from Amherst, a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship enabled me to test the depth of my in...
HAROLD E. VARMUS
To Woodrow Wilson, the apparent failure, belongs the undying honor, which will grow with the growin...
RT. HON. JAN CHRISTIAAN SMUTS
In 1919, at the Paris Peace Conference, Japan had put forward a proposal to guarantee racial equalit...
PANKAJ MISHRA
When most people think of Woodrow Wilson, they see a dour minister's son who never cracked a smi...
A. SCOTT BERG
We could be very easily intimidated. But we took it to Woodrow Wilson and that's the plan for Sunday...
KRISTEN DALTON
One German-American friend of mine, an architectural historian my own age, can be counted on to exco...
KURT VONNEGUT
As soon as I moved to Princeton in 1978, I became fascinated by local history, much of it Revolution...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
The historical Woodrow Wilson suffered from numerous complaints which we might today label as psycho...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
He's not staked to the Metro or in Canada. After the Woodrow Wilson, (Western Ace) will tell me whet...
GEORGE TEAGUE
Just think of what Woodrow Wilson stood for: he stood for world government. He wanted an early Unite...
RON PAUL
The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past ...
WOODROW T. WILSON
There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One c...
WOODROW T. WILSON
There is such a thing as a nation being so right that it it does not need to convince others by forc...
WOODROW T. WILSON
It is easier to change the location of a cemetery, than to change the school curriculum
WOODROW T. WILSON
We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.
WOODROW T. WILSON
I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in ...
WOODROW T. WILSON
Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
WOODROW T. WILSON
No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar
WOODROW T. WILSON
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amp...
WOODROW T. WILSON
One of the proofs of the divinity of our gospel is the preaching it has survived
WOODROW T. WILSON
The seed of revolution is repression.
WOODROW T. WILSON
I can predict with absolute certainty that within another generation there will be another world war...
WOODROW T. WILSON
We shall fight for a universal dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples as shall bring pe...
WOODROW T. WILSON
The Constitution of the United States is not a mere lawyers' document: it is a vehicle of life, and ...
WOODROW T. WILSON
A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
WOODROW T. WILSON
I not only use all the brains I have but all I can borrow.
WOODROW T. WILSON
We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.
WOODROW T. WILSON
All the extraordinary men I have known were extraordinary in their own estimation.
WOODROW T. WILSON
No man has ever risen to the real stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer t...
WOODROW T. WILSON
Wilson was once asked how long it took him to write a speech. He answered, 'That depends. If I am to...
WOODROW T. WILSON
Genius is divine perseverance. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all ...
WOODROW T. WILSON
We grow by our dreams.
WOODROW T. WILSON
Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness, and all the ugly distempers that make an ordered li...
WOODROW T. WILSON
I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.
WOODROW T. WILSON
We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day ...
WOODROW T. WILSON
If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itse...
WOODROW T. WILSON
Never attempt to murder a man who is committing suicide.
WOODROW T. WILSON
America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal - to disco...
WOODROW T. WILSON
No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach
WOODROW T. WILSON
You must act in your friend’s interest whether it pleases him or not; the object of love is to ser...
WOODROW T. WILSON
All things come to him who waits -- provided he knows what he is waiting for.
WOODROW T. WILSON
The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their em...
WOODROW T. WILSON
When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you have found it the key...
WOODROW T. WILSON
Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it... The histo...
WOODROW T. WILSON
I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teach...
WOODROW T. WILSON
The sum of the whole matter is this, that our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be re...
WOODROW T. WILSON
If I am to speak for ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if fifteen minutes, three days; if ...
WOODROW T. WILSON
That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
WOODROW T. WILSON
At every crisis in one's life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you ...
WOODROW T. WILSON
There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
WOODROW T. WILSON
Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the...
WOODROW T. WILSON
America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free...
WOODROW T. WILSON
Every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells, and when I give a man an office, I ...
WOODROW T. WILSON
I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
WOODROW T. WILSON
We should not only use the brains we have, but all that we can borrow
WOODROW T. WILSON
Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
WOODROW T. WILSON
The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.
WOODROW T. WILSON
You cannot become thorough Americans if you think of yourselves in groups. America does not consist ...
WOODROW T. WILSON
There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an org...
WOODROW T. WILSON
I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest saf...
WOODROW T. WILSON
If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
WOODROW T. WILSON
I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately triumph than to triumph in a cause that will ult...
WOODROW T. WILSON
A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
WOODROW T. WILSON
We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.
WOODROW T. WILSON
After 'Lindbergh,' my publisher asked whom I wanted to write about next. I said, 'There&...
A. SCOTT BERG
Acadia was founded in 1916 by Woodrow Wilson as the first Eastern national park, aided by rich men, ...
ALEXANDER CHEE
When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you will have found it th...
WOODROW WILSON:
I am honored to be here today at Princeton. From George Kennan and John Foster Dulles, to George Shu...
ANNE-MARIE SLAUGHTER
There are hundreds of books about Woodrow Wilson, but I have an image of him in my mind that is unli...
A. SCOTT BERG
What is interesting and important happens mostly in secret, in places where there is no power.
MICHAEL ONDAATJE
I obtained a Woodrow Wilson Doctoral Fellowship and entered the graduate program in History at the U...
ROBERT LUCAS, JR.
Terrorism thrives in ignorance.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
Political corruption, social greed, and Americanized quasi-socialism can ruin even the most wonderfu...
TIFFANY MADISON
The story of my life is about back entrances, side doors, secret elevators and other ways of getting...
GRETA GARBO
When it comes to governments and corporations, we should demand that less is secret. That's wher...
ALEX GIBNEY
I can't see why we can't toss in a Junior Walker or Wilson Pickett number in every once in a...
JOSE CARRERAS
The U.S., often in secret, carries out counterterrorism missions all the time, with drones in places...
RICHARD ENGEL
Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul
PLATO
It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.
WOODROW WILSON
I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.
WOODROW WILSON
If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
WOODROW WILSON
America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal - to disco...
WOODROW WILSON
A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
WOODROW WILSON
Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.
WOODROW WILSON
The history of liberty is a history of resistance.
WOODROW WILSON
The method of political science is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice und...
WOODROW WILSON
Tell me what is right and I will fight for it.
WOODROW WILSON
What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organi...
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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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If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itse...
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Never attempt to murder a man who is committing suicide.
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I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
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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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If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
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A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
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Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact t...
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You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the b...
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No thoughtful man ever came to the end of his life, and had time and a little space of calm from whi...
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The success of a party means little more than that the Nation is using the party for a large and def...
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They imply, first of all, that it must be a peace without victory. It is not pleasant to say this. I...
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There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One can...
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There is no such thing as a man being too proud to fight; there is such a thing as a nation being so...
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I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than succeed in a cause that will ultima...
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You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.
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I not only use all the brains that I have, but all I can borrow.
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Today's greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow.
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Nothing was ever done so systematically as nothing is being done now.
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The truth is, we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless.
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I believe in democracy, because it releases the energies of every human being.
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Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
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America is the place where you cannot kill your government by killing the men who conduct it.
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That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
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The world must be made safe for democracy.
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When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.
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The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
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Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
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If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are goi...
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I will not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with respect of the past.
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I not only use all the brains I have, but all that I can borrow.
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Once lead this people into war and they will forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance.
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No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation.
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One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty councils. The thing is to supply light and not heat.
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No one who has read official documents needs to be told how easy it is to conceal the essential trut...
WOODROW WILSON
I used to be a lawyer, but now I am a reformed character.
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The way to stop financial joy-riding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.
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Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and ...
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There is such a thing as a nation being so right that it does not need to convince others by force t...
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We cannot be separated in interest or divided in purpose. We stand together until the end.
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There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight; there is such a thing as a nation being so ...
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No nation is fit to sit in judgement upon any other nation.
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I can imagine no greater disservice to the county than to establish a system of censorship that woul...
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We live in an age disturbed, confused, bewildered, afraid of its own forces, in search not merely of...
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You are not here merely to make a living. You are here to enable the world to live more amply, with ...
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The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
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The law that will work is merely the summing up in legislative form of the moral judgement that the ...
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No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acq...
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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...
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America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free...
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...it is as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shooting at you.
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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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We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day ...
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Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history...
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He is not a true man of the world who knows only the present fashions of it.
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The question of armaments, whether on land or sea, is the most immediately and intensely practical q...
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My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business, that it is something we ow...
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The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most signific...
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When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you will have found it th...
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There are blessed intervals when I forget by one means or another that I am President of the United ...
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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 b...
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A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great govern...
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You have the greatest soul, the noblest nature, the sweetest, most loving heart I have ever known, a...
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By 'radical,' I understand one who goes too far; by 'conservative', one who does not...
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If you think too much about being re-elected, it is very difficult to be worth re-electing.
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We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in g...
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Princeton is no longer a thing for Princeton men to please themselves with. Princeton is a thing wit...
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Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the...
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The seed of revolution is repression.
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So far as the colleges go, the sideshows are swallowing up the circus.
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Every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells, and when I give a man an office, I ...
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