Woodrow Wilson quotes - page 2

Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself. (Woodrow Wilson)
Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.
Woodrow Wilson
We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these dreams die, but others nourish and protect them nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who hope that their dreams will come true.
Woodrow Wilson
A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
Woodrow Wilson
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
Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it.
Woodrow Wilson
Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.
Woodrow Wilson
There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with.
Woodrow Wilson
I can imagine no greater disservice to the country than to establish a system of censorship that would deny to the people of a free republic like our own their indisputable right to criticise their own public officials. While exercising the great powers of the office I hold, I would regret in a crisis like the one through which we are now passing to lose the benefit of patriotic and intelligent criticism.
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Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
Woodrow Wilson
Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse. (Woodrow Wilson)
Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
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No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.
Woodrow Wilson
There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.
Woodrow Wilson
I can predict with absolute certainty that within another generation there will be another world war if the nations of the world do not concert the method by which to prevent it.
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Congress in session is Congress on public exhibition, whilst Congress in its committee-rooms is Congress at work.
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You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.
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There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
Woodrow Wilson
Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
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Tell me what is right and I will fight for it.
Woodrow Wilson
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. (Woodrow Wilson)
America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal - to discover and maintain liberty among men.
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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.
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We must believe the things We teach our children.
Woodrow Wilson
If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it.
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