Woodrow Wilson quotes - page 8

Let those beware who would take the shorter road of disorder and revolution. The right road is the road of justice and orderly process. (Woodrow Wilson)
There are those in this country who threaten direct action to force their will, upon a majority.
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The peace of the world depends upon the just settlement of each of the several problems to which I adverted in my recent address to the Congress. I.
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Nothing is easier than to falsify the past. Lifeless instruction will do it. If you rob it of vitality, stiffen it with pedantry, sophisticate it with argument, chill it with unsympathetic comment, you render it as dead as any academic exercise.
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No country can afford to have its prosperity originated by a small controlling class.
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The question upon which the whole future peace and policy of the world depends is this: Is the present war a struggle for a just and secure peace, or only for a new balance of power?
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There shall be no annexations, no contributions, no punitive damage. Peoples are not to be handed about from one sovereignty to another by an international conference or an understanding between rivals and antagonists. National aspirations must be respected; peoples may now be dominated and governed only by their own consent. "Self-determination" is not a mere phrase. It is an imperative principle.
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The instrument of all reform in America is the ballot.
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It was a menace to society itself that the negroes should thus of a sudden be set free and left without tutelage or restraint.
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The world has a habit of going on.
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If a man is a fool, the best thing is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking. (Woodrow Wilson)
I come from the South and I know what war is, for I have seen its terrible wreckage and ruin. It is easy for me as President to declare war. I do not have to fight, and neither do the gentlemen on the Hill who now clamor for it. It is some poor farmer's boy, or the son of some poor widow - who will have to do the fighting and dying.
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Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned.
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Their ignorance and credulity made them easy dupes.
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The seed of the jealousy, the seed of the deep-seated hatred was hot, successful commercial and industrial rivalry.
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Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American.
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It has never been natural, it has seldom been possible, in this country for learning to seek a place apart and hold aloof from affairs.
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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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Segregation is not humiliating, but a benefit, and ought to be so regarded by you gentlemen.
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I sat next to the Duchess at tea. It was just as I feared it would be: Her rumblings abdominal Were truly phenomenal, And everyone thought it was me!
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A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is privately concentrated. (Woodrow Wilson)
A general peace erected upon such foundations can be discussed. Until such a peace can be secured we have no choice but to go on.
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I have always detested Germany. I have never gone there. But I have read many German books on law. They are so far from our views that they have inspired in me a feeling of aversion.
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Every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells, and when I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is growing or swelling.
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So far as the colleges go, the sideshows are swallowing up the circus.
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