Heart Quotes by Woodrow Wilson

18 Heart quotes by Woodrow Wilson

Woodrow Wilson writes about the heart with the same gravitas he applied to leadership, weaving together civic duty, moral conviction, and personal resolve into a concise collection of 18 statements.

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Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.

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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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Every one at the bottom of his heart cherishes vanity; even the toad thinks himself good-looking,--"rather tawny perhaps, but look at his…

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Has justice ever grown in the soil of absolute power? Has not justice always come from the ... heart and spirit of…

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What is at the heart of all national problems? It is that we have seen the hand of material interest sometimes about…

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When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you will have found it the…

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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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America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work…

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I lived a dream life (almost too exclusively, perhaps) when I was a lad and even now my thought goes back for…

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Some Americans need hyphens in their names, because only part of them has come over; but when the whole man has come…

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I believe very profoundly in an over-ruling Providence, and I do not fear that any real plans can be thrown off the…

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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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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 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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You have the greatest soul, the noblest nature, the sweetest, most loving heart I have ever known, and my love, my reverence,…

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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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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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Some of the greatest and most lasting effects of genuine oratory have gone forth from secluded lecture desks into the hearts of…

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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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