Doe Quotes by Woodrow Wilson

19 Doe quotes by Woodrow Wilson

Woodrow Wilson’s nineteen remarks place 'Doe' within the context of civic responsibility and leadership. The collection offers a historical lens, showing how a single term can intersect with policy and public service.

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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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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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Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting.

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Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the distemper's that make an ordered life impossible.

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Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.

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Benevolence does not consist in those who are prosperous pitying and helping those who are not. It consists in fellow feeling that…

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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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Such a mind we must desire to see in a woman,--a mind that stirs without irritating you, that arouses but does not…

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Liberty does not consist in mere declarations of the rights of man. It consists in the translation of those declarations into definite…

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A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying…

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

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

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It does not become America that within her borders, where every man is free to follow the dictates of his conscience, men…

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Neutrality is a negative word. It is a word that does not express what America ought to feel. America has a heart,…

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The example of America must be the example not merely of peace because it will not fight, but of peace because peace…

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No peace can last, or ought to last, which does not recognize and accept the principle that governments derive all their just…

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Today, supremely, it behooves us to remember that a nation shall be saved by the power that sleeps in its own bosom;…

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The only way your powers can become great is by exerting them outside the circle of your own narrow, special, selfish interests.…

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Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise. Once and again one of those great influences which we call a Cause…

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

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

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

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