Woodrow Wilson Quotes

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• We came to America, either ourselves or in the persons of our ancestors, to better the ideals of men, to make them see finer things…
• Genius is divine perseverance. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have.
• No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acquiescence.
• America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.
• The rule for every man is, not to depend on the education which other men have prepared for him-not even to consent to it; but…
• The flag is a flag of liberty of opinion as well as of political liberty.
• A powerful Navy we have always regarded as our proper and natural means of defense; and it has always been of defense that we have…
• To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fibre of national life...
• We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.
• It must be a peace without victory...Victory would mean peace forced upon the loser, a victor's terms imposed upon the vanquished. It would be accepted…
• I have received delegations of working men who come, apparently speaking of the utmost sincerity, have declared that they would regard it as a genuine…
• A man is not as big as his belief in himself; he is as big as the number of persons who believe in him.
• We should not only master questions, but also act upon them, and act definitely.
• No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
• You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand
• The object of love is to serve, not to win
• The Bible is the one supreme source of revelation of the meaning of life, the nature of God and spiritual nature and need of men.…
• Big business is not dangerous because it is big, but because its bigness is an unwholesome inflation created by privileges and exemptions which it ought…
• Every great man of business has got somewhere a touch of the idealist in him.
• A right is worth fighting for only when it can be put into operation.

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