Woodrow Wilson Quotes

• My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business, that it is something we owe to each other to understand and discuss with absolute frankness.

  Woodrow Wilson

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• My own ideals for the university are those of a genuine democracy and serious scholarship. These two, indeed, seem to go together.

  Woodrow Wilson

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• 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.

  Woodrow Wilson

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• Never attempt to murder a man who is committing suicide.

  Woodrow Wilson

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• 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

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• So far as the colleges go, the sideshows are swallowing up the circus.

  Woodrow Wilson

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• The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.

  Woodrow Wilson

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• The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous, event of our generation.

  Woodrow Wilson

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• The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.

  Woodrow Wilson

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• The history of liberty is a history of resistance.

  Woodrow Wilson

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• The method of political science is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions.

  Woodrow Wilson

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• The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them.

  Woodrow Wilson

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• There are blessed intervals when I forget by one means or another that I am President of the United States.

  Woodrow Wilson

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• There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.

  Woodrow Wilson

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• What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.

  Woodrow Wilson

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• The Constitution of the United States is not a mere lawyers’ document: it is a vehicle of life, and its spirit is always the spirit of the age.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Topics in Age, Funny

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• A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.

  Woodrow Wilson

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• 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

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• Absolute identity with one’s cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.

  Woodrow Wilson

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• At every crisis in one’s life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving.

  Woodrow Wilson

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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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