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Inspirational Quotes by Woodrow Wilson

45 Inspirational quotes by Woodrow Wilson

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Woodrow Wilson links personal character to everyday work and sees government as the nation's shared conscience. He calls the conflict a war to end all wars and mentions that liberty depends on the constitution. His thoughts tie moral duties to big political ideas.

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The right is more precious than peace.

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The object of love is to serve, not to win

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No man can be just who is not free.

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America was born a Christian nation,

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We grow by our dreams.

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It must be a peace without victory

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Open covenants of peace, openly arrived at.

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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

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I have no happy fairyland vision that she can win.

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

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Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

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

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Justice, and only justice, shall always be our motto.

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There is no more subtle dissolvent of morals than sentimentality.

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We should not only master questions, but also act upon them, and act definitely.

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The only place in the world that nothing has to be explained to me is the South.

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The highest and best form of efficiency is the spontaneous cooperation of a free people.

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The profession I chose was politics; the profession I entered was law. I entered the one because I thought it would lead…

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I had rather be defeated in a cause that will ultimately triumph than triumph in a cause that will ultimately be defeated.

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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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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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Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of…

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Every country is renewed out of the unknown ranks and not out of the ranks of those already famous and powerful and…

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We cannot be separated in interest or divided in purpose. We stand together until the end.

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Government is merely an attempt to express the conscience of everybody, the average conscience of the nation, in the rules that everybody…

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There is no indispensable man.

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This is a war to end all wars.

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All things come to him who waits

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Liberty is its own reward.

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My best training came from my father.

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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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I want the people to love me, but I suppose they never will.

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We are not put into this world to sit still and know; we are put into it to act.

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Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.

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Every people has a right to choose the sovereignty under which they shall live.

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The princes among us are those who forget themselves and serve others.

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One of the proofs of the divinity of our gospel is the preaching it has survived.

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Segregation is not humiliating but a benefit

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America is the only idealistic nation in the world.

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We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.

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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.