Woodrow Wilson Quotes

• 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.

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• One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.

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

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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.

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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.

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• 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.

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• Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.

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

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• If you think too much about being re-elected, it is very difficult to be worth re-electing.

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• If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it..

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• 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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• 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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• I will not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with respect of the past.

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• I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.

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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 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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• He is not a true man of the world who knows only the present fashions of it.

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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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• 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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Woodrow Wilson (85)

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

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