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Own Quotes by Woodrow Wilson
- We can afford to exercise the self-restraint of a really great nation which realizes its own strength and scorns to misuse it.
- They do not need our praise. They do not need that our admiration should sustain them. There is no immortality that is safer than theirs.…
- Liberty is its own reward.
- In fundamental theory socialism and democracy are almost if not quite one and the same. They both rest at bottom upon the absolute right of…
- When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you will have found it the key to your…
- America was born a Christian nation. America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness, which are derived from Holy Scripture. Ladies…
- The Americans who went to Europe to die are a unique breed.... (They) crossed the seas to a foreign land to fight for a cause…
- A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is privately concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and…
- I can imagine no greater disservice to the country than to establish a system of censorship that would deny to the people of a free…
- I have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty, and business liberty, and every other kind of liberty, in the phrase that is…
- We live in an age disturbed, confused, bewildered, afraid of its own forces, in search not merely of its road but even of its direction.…
- Some Americans need hyphens in their names, because only part of them has come over; but when the whole man has come over, heart and…
- The success of a party means little more than that the Nation is using the party for a large and definite purpose. It seeks to…
- A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
- If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it.
- My own ideals for the university are those of a genuine democracy and serious scholarship. These two, indeed, seem to go together.
- We forget that there is much more patriotism in having the audacity to differ from the majority than in running before the crowd; we forget…
- Only free peoples can hold their purpose and their honor steady to a common end, and prefer the interests of mankind to any narrow interest…
- All the extraordinary men I have known were extraordinary in their own estimation.
- If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. Character is a by-product, and…
- A little group of willful men reflecting no opinion but their own have rendered the great Government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
- We live in an age disturbed, confused, bewildered, afraid of its own forces, in search not merely of its road but even of its direction.
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