Woodrow Wilson Quotes

• There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.

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

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• The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.

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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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• The seed of revolution is repression.

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• The question of armaments, whether on land or sea, is the most immediately and intensely practical question connected with the future fortunes of nations and of mankind.

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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.

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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.

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

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• The history of liberty is a history of resistance.

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

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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.

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

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• That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.

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• Tell me what is right and I will fight for 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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• So far as the colleges go, the sideshows are swallowing up the circus.

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

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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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• 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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Woodrow Wilson (85)

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

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