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World Quotes by Woodrow Wilson

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Woodrow Wilson frames the world as a stage where nations act, sometimes proud, sometimes in protest. He notes that industrial and commercial rivalry plant the seed of modern war. He also believes that a safe world for democracy depends on the people we learn from and the liberty we protect.

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America is the only idealistic nation in the world.

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“The world has a habit of going on.”

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...to make the world safe for democracy.

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It is a protest against the way the world has worked. (explanation of Bolshevism)

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The only thing that saves the world is the little handful of disinterested men that are in it.

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We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world.

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You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand

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To conquer with arms is to make only a temporary conquest; to conquer the world by earning its esteem is to make…

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...men are not put into this world to go the path of ease, they are put into this world to go the…

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We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.

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There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot…

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The world is not looking for servants, there are plenty of these, but for masters, men who form their purposes and then…

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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…

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Any man that resists the present tides that run in the world, will find himself thrown upon a shore so high and…

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I am not sure that it is of the first importance that you should be happy. Many an unhappy man has been…

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Here lies, in a "horizontal" position The "outside" case of Peter Pendulum, watch-maker. He departed this life "wound up" In hopes of…

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Is there any man, is there any woman, let me say any child here that does not know that the seed of…

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Sciencehas won for us a great liberty in the physical world, a liberty from superstitious fear and from disease, a freedom touse…

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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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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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It must be a peace without victory...Victory would mean peace forced upon the loser, a victor's terms imposed upon the vanquished. It…

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The only way your powers can become great is by exerting them outside the circle of your own narrow, special, selfish interests.…

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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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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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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 trade ignores national boundaries and the manufacturer insists on having the world as a market, the flag of his nation must…

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The spirit of [William] Penn will not be stayed. You cannot set limits to such knightly adventurers. After their own day is…

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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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No task, rightly done, is truly private. It is part of the world s work.

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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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Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic…

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The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.

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He is not a true man of the world who knows only the present fashions of it.

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

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A man has deprived himself of the best there is in the world who has (been) deprived of (the Bible).

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This little world, this little state, this little commonwealth of our own…

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A man has deprived himself of the best there is in the world who has deprived himself of this.

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We are provincials no longer. The tragic events of the 30 months of vital turmoil through which we have just passed have…

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We are participants, whether we would or not, in the life of the world… We are partners with the rest. What affects…

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You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply,…

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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.