Woodrow Wilson Quotes

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Woodrow Wilson

Profession : President

Birth : December 28, 1856

Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.

Woodrow Wilson

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

Woodrow Wilson

There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.

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I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.

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One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.

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Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.

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The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

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Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.

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You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape.

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If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

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I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.

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Never attempt to murder a man who is committing suicide.

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The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.

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In the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.

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Neutrality is a negative word. It does not express what America ought to feel. We are not trying to keep out of trouble; we are trying to preserve the foundations on which peace may be rebuilt.

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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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Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.

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The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.

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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 nation in the world.

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As compared with the college politician, the real article seems like an amateur.

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