Woodrow Wilson quotes - page 4

I will not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with respect of the past. (Woodrow Wilson)
Interest does not tie nations together; it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.
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That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
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Property as compared with humanity, as compared with the red blood in the American people, must take second place, not first place.
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Since trade ignores national boundaries and the manufacturer insists on having the world as a market, the flag of his nation must follow him, and the doors of the nations which are closed must be battered down. Concessions obtained by financiers must be safeguarded by ministers of state, even if the sovereignty of unwilling nations be outraged in the process. Colonies must be obtained or planted, in order that no useful corner of the world may be overlooked or left unused.
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Well, nothing was ever done so systematically as nothing is being done now.
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There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.
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By 'radical,' I understand one who goes too far; by 'conservative,' one who does not go far enough; by 'reactionary,' one who won't go at all.
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The white men of the South were aroused by the mere instinct of self-preservation to rid themselves, by fair means or foul, of the intolerable burden of governments sustained by the votes of ignorant negroes and conducted in the interest of adventurers.
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You know that it was Jefferson who said that the best government is that which does as little governing as possible.... But that time is passed. America is not now and cannot in the future be a place for unrestricted individual enterprise.
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I have read it with the deepest appreciation of Mr. Herron's singular insight into all the elements of a complicated situation and into my own motives and purposes. (Woodrow Wilson)
Some men who are not real men love other things about themselves, but the real man believes that his honor is dearer than his life; and a nation is merely all of us put together, and the nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort and the nation's peace and the nation's life itself.
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The United States must be neutral in fact as well as in name...We must be impartial in thought as well as in action.
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We are not put into this world to sit still and know; we are put into it to act. It is true that in order to learn men must for a little while withdraw from action, must seek some quiet place of remove from the bustle of affairs, where their thoughts may run clear and tranquil, and the heats of business be for the time put off; but that cloistered refuge is no place to dream in.
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Like a lusty child, government with us has expanded in nature and grown great in stature, but has also become awkward in movement... English and American political history has been a history, not of administrative development, but of legislative oversight-not of progress in governmental organization, but of advance in law-making and political criticism... We go on criticising when we ought to be creating.
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Mr. House is my second personality. He is my independent self. His thoughts and mine are one. If I were in his place I would do just as he suggested.
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14. A general association of nations must be formed under specific covenants for the purpose of affording mutual guarantees of political independence and territorial integrity to great and small states alike.
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Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of somebody, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.
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The difference between a strong man and a weak one is that the former does not give up after a defeat.
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War isn't declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.
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The purpose of a university should be to make a son as unlike his father as possible. By the time a man has grown old enough to have a son in college he has specialized. The university should generalize the treatment of its undergraduates, should struggle to put them in touch with every force of life. (Woodrow Wilson)
The supreme test of the nation has come. We must all speak, act, and serve together!
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The only excuse that America can ever have for the assertion of her physical force is that she asserts it in behalf of the interests of humanity.
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Every country-side wished to have its own Ku Klux, founded in secrecy and mystery like the mother ‘Den' at Pulaski, until at last there had sprung into existence a great Ku Klux Klan, an ‘Invisible Empire of the South,' bound together in loose organization to protect the southern country from some of the ugliness hazards of a time of revolution.
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America is the place where you can not kill your Government by killing the men who conduct it. The only way you can kill government in America is by making the men and women of America forget how to govern, and nobody can do that. They sometimes find the team a little difficult to drive, but they sooner or later whip it into harness.
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