United Quotes by Woodrow Wilson

17 United quotes by Woodrow Wilson

Wilson’s writings on solidarity capture a moment when the world was reshaping itself after a global conflict. These seventeen excerpts reveal his belief in collective effort, both at home and abroad, and how that conviction shaped his policies.

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To be free is not necessarily to be wise. Wisdom comes with counsel, with the frank and free conference of untrammeled men…

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The masters of the government of the United States are the combined capitalists and manufacturers of the United States.

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No man ever saw a government. I live in the midst of the Government of the United States, but I never saw…

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If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own…

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There are blessed intervals when I forget by one means or another that I am President of the United States.

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The Government of the United States would be constrained to hold the Imperial German government to a strict accountability for such acts…

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Remember that God ordained that I should be the next president of the United States. Neither you nor any other mortal or…

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A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless…

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The Constitution of the United States is not a mere lawyers' document. It is a vehicle of life, and its spirit is…

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The flag of the United States has not been created by rhetorical sentences in declarations of independence and in bills of rights.…

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You have just taken an oath of allegiance to the United States. Of allegiance to whom? Of allegiance to no one, unless…

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The United States must be neutral in fact as well as in name… We must be impartial in thought as well as…

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Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United…

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The city of Washington is in some respects self-contained, and it is easy there to forget what the rest of the United…

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No man ever saw the people of whom he forms a part. No man ever saw a government. I live in the…

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God knows that any man who would seek the presidency of the United States is a fool for his pains. The burden…

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Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United…

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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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