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Men Quotes by Woodrow Wilson

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Woodrow Wilson’s words often speak about the everyday worker. They say that the happiness and energy of those who do the daily labor are the real foundation of prosperity. They also warn that justice grows from people who push back against absolute power, and that no single person is essential for a government to survive.

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No man can be just who is not free.

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There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight.

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A man's rootage is more important than his leafage.

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A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.

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Men grow by having responsibility laid upon them.

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Never murder a man when he's busy committing suicide.

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There is no indispensable man.

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All the extraordinary men I have known were extraordinary in their own estimation.

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It is not men that interest or disturb me primarily; it is ideas. Ideas live; men die.

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It is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shouting at you.

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The presidential office is not a rosewater affair. This is an office in which a man must put on his war paint.

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No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.

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Conformity will be the only virtue and any man who refuses to conform will have to pay the penalty.

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No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acquiescence.

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A man is not as big as his belief in himself; he is as big as the number of persons who believe…

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I am sorry for men who do not read the Bible every day. I wonder why they deprive themselves of the strength…

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I confess my belief in the common man… The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it… The…

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When they the American soldiers came, they found fit comrades for their courage and their devotion… Joining hands with them, the men…

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Is there any man, is there any woman, let me say any child here that does not know that the seed of…

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I have received delegations of working men who come, apparently speaking of the utmost sincerity, have declared that they would regard it…

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Surely a man has come to himself only when he has found the best that is in him, and has satisfied his…

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I have sometimes heard men say politics must have nothing to do with business, and I have often wished that business had…

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There is no indispensable man. The government will not collapse and go to pieces if any one of the gentlemen who are…

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The competent leader of men cares little for the niceties of other peoples' characters: he cares much--everything--for the exterior uses to which…

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In fundamental theory socialism and democracy are almost if not quite one and the same. They both rest at bottom upon the…

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Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United…

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The spirit of [William] Penn will not be stayed. You cannot set limits to such knightly adventurers. After their own day is…

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There has been something crude and heartless and unfeeling in our haste to suceed and be great. Our thought has been 'Let…

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Once lead this people into war, and they'll forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance. To fight, you must be…

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One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty councils. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat. Ay any…

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There is a very holy and a very terrible isolation for the conscience of every man who seeks to read the destiny…

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My urgent advice to you would be, not only always to think first of America, but always, also, to think first of…

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A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is privately concentrated. The growth of the…

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The nature of men and of organized society dictates the maintenance in every field of action of the highest and purest standards…

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If young gentlemen get from their years in college only manliness, esprit de corps, a release of their social gifts, a training…

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America was born a Christian nation. America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness, which are derived from…

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I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of…

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Let it be your pride to show all men everywhere not only what good soldiers you are, but also what good men…

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The only thing that saves the world is the little handful of disinterested men that are in it.

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The difference between a strong man and a weak one is that the former does not give up after a defeat.

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If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if fifteen minutes, three days; if half an hour, two days;…

There is here a great melting pot in which we must compound a precious metal. That metal is the metal of nationality.

One cannot pay the price of self-respect.

I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.

I have received delegations of working men who, apparently speaking with the utmost sincerity, have declared that they would regard it as a genuine…

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

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

...We are intensely proud of their noble record and are glad to have had the whole world see how irresistible they are in their…

The facts of the case will always have the better of [an] argument.

The greatest embarrassment of my political career has been that active duties seem to deprive me of time for careful investigation. I seem almost…

Some Americans need hyphens in their names because only part of them has come over.

The history of liberty is the history of limitations on the power of government, not the increase of it. When we resist, therefore, the…

When I think of the flag… I see alternate strips of parchment upon which are written the rights of liberty and justice, and stripes…

If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if an hour, I am ready now.

Energy in a nation is like sap in a tree; it rises from bottom up.