He man Quotes by Woodrow Wilson

14 He man quotes by Woodrow Wilson

For a glimpse of early‑20th‑century political rhetoric, Wilson’s brief collection on the ‘He man’ theme shows how he linked personal resolve with national service.

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The man who has no vision will undertake no great enterprise.

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The man who disparages music as a luxury and non-essential is doing the nation an injury. Music now, more than ever before,…

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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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Your enlightenment depends on the company you keep. You do not know the world until you know the men who have possessed…

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The man who reads everything is like the man who eats everything: he can digest nothing, and the penalty of crowding one's…

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The men who act stand nearer to the mass of man than the men who write; and it is in their hands…

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And when they [American soldiers] came, they found fit comrades for their courage and their devotion. ... Joining hands with these, the…

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A man who thinks of himself as belonging to a particular national group in America has not yet become an American. And…

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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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The welfare, the happiness, the energy and spirit of the men and women who do the daily workis the underlying necessity of…

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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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I have had the accomplishment of something like this at heart ever since I was a boy… So I feel tonight like…

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...it would be a mistake...to ascribe to Roman legal conceptions an undivided sway over the development of law and institutions during the…

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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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