Woodrow Wilson Quotes

• People call mean idealist. That is how I know that I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.

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• People and provinces must not be bartered about from sovereign to sovereign as if they were chattels, or pawns in a game. Self-determination is not a mere phrase. It is an imperative principle, which statesmen will henceforth ignore at their peril.

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• In this war, we demand nothing that is peculiar to ourselves; only that the world be made fit and safe to live in. The programme of the world’s peace, therefore, is our programme.

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• It is not an army that we must train for war; it is a nation.

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• Armed neutrality is ineffectual enough at best.

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• Those are American principles, American policies. We could stand for no others. They are also the principles of mankind, and must prevail.

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• America cannot be an ostrich, with its head in the sand.

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• We are constantly thinking of the great war…which saved the Union…but it was a war which did a great deal more than that. It created in this country what had never existed before – a national consciousness.

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• There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight; there is such a thing as a nation being so right that it does not need to convince others by force that it is right.

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• I venture to speak a solemn word of warning. The United States must be neutral in fact as well as in name during these days that are to try men’s souls. We must be impartial in thought as well as in action.

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• The people of the United States are drawn from many nations, and chiefly from the nations now at war. Some will wish one nation, others another, to succeed in this monumental struggle.

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• Human rights, national integrity, and opportunity as against material interests…are the issues that we now must face. I take this occasion to say that the United States will never again seek one additional foot of territory by conquest.

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• The feelings with which we face this new age of right and opportunity sweep across our heartstrings like some air out of God’s own presence, where justice and mercy are reconciled, and the judge and the brother are one.

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• Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

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• We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.

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• You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape.

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• You are not here merely to make a living. 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, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

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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.

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• We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study.

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

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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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