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"50 Woodrow Wilson Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 28 December 1856. Died: 3 February 1924 | President | Politician |

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

You Make Enemies Change
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Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
Friendship Only Hold World
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We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this

Citizens World Tragedy Times
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A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits.

Conservative Man Sits Thinks
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You are here to enrich the world and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

You Enrich World Forget
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We can have no sympathy with those who seek the power of government to advance their own personal interests or ambitions.

Sympathy Power Intrests Ambitions
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Freedom exists only where people take care of the government.

Freedom People Care Government
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If a man is a fool, the best thing is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.

Man Fool Encourage Fact
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We can afford to exercise the self-restraint of a really great nation which realizes its own strength and scorns to misuse it.

We Great nation Strength Scorns
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We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study.

We Science Education Study
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There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.

Price Peace Word Self-respect
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There is more of a nation's politics to be got out of its poetry than out of all its systematic writers on public affairs and constitutions.

Nation's Politics Poetry Writers
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When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.

Men Arms Free Warfare
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We should not only use all the brains we have but all that we can borrow.

We Use Brains Borrow
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You are not here merely to making 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.

Living World Vision Hope
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I have found one can never get anything in life that is worth while without fighting for it.
Found Life Worth Fighting
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You know how impossible it is, in short, to have a free nation if it is a military nation and under military orders

Impossible Free Nation Military
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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; if an hour, I am ready now.

Speak Need Preparation Ready
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No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation.

Nation Sit Judgement Nation
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The world has a habit of going on.

World Habit Going on
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There is nothing that succeeds in life like boldness, provided you believe you are on the right side.

Succeds Life Boldness Believe
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of course like every other man of intelligence and education I do believe in organic evolution. It surprises me that at this late date such questions should be raised.

Man Education Believe Questions
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Only peace between equals can last.

Only Peace Equals Last
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War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.

War Name God Human affair
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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 hearts

Right Peace Fight Hearts
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The difference between a strong man and a weak one is that the former does not give up after a defeat.

Strong Weak Giv up Defeat
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The seed of revolution is repression.

Seed Revolution Repression
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Some people have a large circle of friends while others have only friends that they like.

People Large Friends Like
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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!

I Lose Cause Win
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If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.

Looked Home Examine Conscience
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The history of liberty is a history of resistance
History Liberty Resistance
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One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.

Judgement Counsels Light Heat
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I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.

Poor Rich Love Liberty
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The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

Man Stream Knows Strength
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At every crisis in one's life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving.

Crisis Life Friend Restraint
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Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Prosperity First Political
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Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.

Politics Science Progress Society
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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.

Liberty Government History Power
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The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.
Leader Ring Voices People
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By 'radical,' I understand one who goes too far; by 'conservative', one who does not go far enough; by 'reactionary', one who won't go at all.

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

Religion Human service Work Good
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Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.

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

World Democracy Peace Political
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Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.

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

True Man World Fashion
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Tell me what is right and I will fight for it.

Me Right Fight
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What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.

Seek Reign Law Mankind
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Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.

Caution Confidential Selfishness
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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 carry them out, let the consequences be what they may.

World Servants Masters Purposes
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The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them.

Obstacle Overcome Brave men Challenge
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