Woodrow Wilson quotes - page 3

It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true. (Woodrow Wilson)
America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.
Woodrow Wilson
Never attempt to murder a man who is committing suicide.
Woodrow Wilson
The sum of the whole matter is this, that our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually.
Woodrow Wilson
The way to stop financial joy-riding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.
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Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.
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The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.
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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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It must be a peace without victory.
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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.
Woodrow Wilson
Some people have a large circle of friends while others have only friends that they like. (Woodrow Wilson)
1. Open covenants of peace must be arrived at.
Woodrow Wilson
We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.
Woodrow Wilson
No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know.
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There is such a thing as a nation being so right that it it does not need to convince others by force that it is right.
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The highest and best form of efficiency is the spontaneous cooperation of a free people.
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There is such thing as a man being too proud to fight.
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Liberty is its own reward.
Woodrow Wilson
We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class, of necessity, in every society, to forego the privileges of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks.
Woodrow Wilson
The question of armaments, whether on land or sea, is the most immediately and intensely practical question connected with the future fortunes of nations and of mankind.
Woodrow Wilson
My own ideals for the university are those of a genuine democracy and serious scholarship. These two, indeed, seem to go together. (Woodrow Wilson)
Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
Woodrow Wilson
Neutrality is a negative word. It does not express what America ought to feel. We are not trying to keep out of trouble; we are trying to preserve the foundations on which peace may be rebuilt.
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Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
Woodrow Wilson
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