Fighting Quotes by Woodrow Wilson

18 Fighting quotes by Woodrow Wilson

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Woodrow Wilson’s thoughts on fighting intertwine the harsh realities of war with his vision for a post‑conflict order. Eighteen excerpts illustrate his belief that conflict can be a catalyst for diplomatic renewal and democratic ideals.

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In public affairs, stupidity is more dangerous than knavery, because it is harder to fight.

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“I have found one can never get anything in life that is worth while without fighting for it.”

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A right is worth fighting for only when it can be put into operation.

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While we are fighting for freedom, we must see, among other things, that labor is free.

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We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.

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I am one who fights without a knack of hoping confidentlysimply a Scotch-Irishman who will not be conquered.

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

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But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our…

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To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fibre of national…

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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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I came from the South and I know what war is, for I have seen its wreckage and terrible ruin. It is…

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For my part, I am very much more afraid of the man who does a bad thing and does not know it…

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It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars,…

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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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It was necessary to put the South at a moral disadvantage by transforming the contest from a war waged against states fighting…

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But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our…

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The Americans who went to Europe to die are a unique breed… (They) crossed the seas to a foreign land to fight…

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

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

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One cannot pay the price of self-respect.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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