Woodrow Wilson Quotes

• 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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• Generally young men are regarded as radicals. This is a popular misconception. The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life.

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• The world is not looking for servants, there are plenty of these, but for masters, men who form their purposes and then carry them out, let the consequences be what they may.

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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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• As compared with the college politician, the real article seems like an amateur.

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• If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.

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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 man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

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• 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.

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• It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.

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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 been of deep service to himself and to the world.

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• Princeton is no longer a thing for Princeton men to please themselves with. Princeton is a thing with which Princeton men must satisfy the country.

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• Interest does not tie nations together; it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.

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• I have come slowly into possession of such powers as I have. I receive the opinions of my day. I do not conceive them. But I receive them into a vivid mind.

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• I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.

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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 or in the red fire of a long winter’s evening. Some of us let these great 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 sincerely hope that their dreams will come true.

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• 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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• Tell me what is right and I will fight for it.

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• I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.

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• Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

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Woodrow Wilson (85)

Birth:	28th December, 1856
Death:	3rd February, 1924
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Historian, Politician, President

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