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Woodrow Wilson Quotes

We are not put into this world to sit still and know; we are put into it to act Picture Quote #1

What is the use of voting? We know that the machines of both parties are subsidized by the same persons, and therefore it is useless to turn in either direction Picture Quote #1

As a matter of fact and experience, the more power is divided the more irresponsible it becomes Picture Quote #1

The whole purpose of democracy is that we may hold counsel with one another, so as not to depend upon the understanding of one man Picture Quote #1

If the colored people made a mistake in voting for me, they ought to correct it Picture Quote #1

Is there any man, is there any woman, let me say any child here that does not know that the seed of war in the modern world is industrial and commercial rivalry? Picture Quote #1

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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 it and tried its wares before you were ever given your brief run upon it Picture Quote #1

We didn’t have another choice but to do what we did, if we wanted to be accepted, because we weren’t counted as human beings Picture Quote #1

I am sorry for those that disagree with me because I know that they are wrong Picture Quote #1

There is a power so organized, so subtle, so complete, and so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it Picture Quote #1

The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible Picture Quote #1

It is not men that interest or disturb me primarily; it is ideas. Ideas live; men die Picture Quote #1

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I do not want to live under a philanthropy. I do not want to be taken care of by the government... We do not want a benevolent government. We want a free and a just government Picture Quote #1

There is no indispensable man. The government will not collapse and go to pieces if any one of the gentlemen who are seeking to be entrusted with its guidance should be left at home Picture Quote #1

There’s not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else’s brains Picture Quote #1

The law that will work is merely the summing up in legislative form of the moral judgment that the community has already reached Picture Quote #1

We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class of necessity in every society, to forgo the privilege of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks Picture Quote #1

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. There are many voices of counsel, but few voices of vision; there is much excitement and feverish activity, but little concert of thoughtful purpose. We are distressed by our own ungoverned, undirected energies and do many things, but nothing long. It is our duty to find ourselves Picture Quote #1

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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, 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 Picture Quote #1

We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter’s evening. Some of us let these dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true Picture Quote #1

No thoughtful man ever came to the end of his life, and had time and a little space of calm from which to look back upon it, who did not know and acknowledge that it was what he had done unselfishly and for others, and nothing else, that satisfied him in the retrospect, and made him feel that he had played the man Picture Quote #1

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 in humiliation, under duress, at an intolerable sacrifice and would leave a sting, a resentment, a bitter memory upon which terms of peace would rest, not permanently, but only as upon quicksand. Only a peace between equals can last Picture Quote #1

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. We come not for their sakes but for our own, in order that we may drink at the same springs of inspiration from which they themselves drank Picture Quote #1

The history of liberty is the history of limitations on the power of government, not the increase of it. When we resist, therefore, the concentration of power, we are resisting the processes of death, because concentration of power is what always precedes the destruction of human liberties Picture Quote #1

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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 the community to determine its own destiny and that of its members. Men as communities are supreme over men as individuals. Limits of wisdom and convenience to the public control there may be: limits of principle there are, upon strict analysis, none Picture Quote #1

Since trade ignores national boundaries and the manufacturer insists on having the world as a market, the flag of his nation must follow him, and the doors of the nations which are closed against him must be battered down. Concessions obtained by financiers must be safeguarded by ministers of state, even if the sovereignty of unwilling nations be outraged in the process. Colonies must be obtained or planted, in order that no useful corner of the world may be overlooked or left unused Picture Quote #1

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 all our activities are in the hands of a few men who, even if their action be honest and intended for the public interest, are necessarily concentrated upon the great undertakings in which their own money is involved and who necessarily, by very reason of their own limitations, chill and check and destroy genuine economic freedom Picture Quote #1

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 republic like our own their indisputable right to criticize their own public officials. While exercising the great powers of the office I hold, I would regret in a crisis like the one through which we are now passing to lose the benefit of patriotic and intelligent criticism Picture Quote #1

The supreme test of the nation has come. We must all speak, act, and serve together! Picture Quote #1

He is not a true man of the world who knows only the present fashions of it Picture Quote #1

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We are not put into this world to sit still and know; we are put into it to act (Woodrow Wilson Quotes) What is the use of voting? We know that the machines of both parties are subsidized by the same persons, and therefore it is useless to turn in either direction (Woodrow Wilson Quotes) As a matter of fact and experience, the more power is divided the more irresponsible it becomes (Woodrow Wilson Quotes) The whole purpose of democracy is that we may hold counsel with one another, so as not to depend upon the understanding of one man (Woodrow Wilson Quotes) If the colored people made a mistake in voting for me, they ought to correct it (Woodrow Wilson Quotes) Is there any man, is there any woman, let me say any child here that does not know that the seed of war in the modern world is industrial and commercial rivalry? (Woodrow Wilson Quotes) Your enlightenment depends on the company you keep. You do not know the world until you know the men who have possessed it and tried its wares before you were ever given your brief run upon it (Woodrow Wilson Quotes) We didn’t have another choice but to do what we did, if we wanted to be accepted, because we weren’t counted as human beings (Woodrow Wilson Quotes) I am sorry for those that disagree with me because I know that they are wrong (Woodrow Wilson Quotes) There is a power so organized, so subtle, so complete, and so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it (Woodrow Wilson Quotes) The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible (Woodrow Wilson Quotes) It is not men that interest or disturb me primarily; it is ideas. Ideas live; men die (Woodrow Wilson Quotes) I do not want to live under a philanthropy. I do not want to be taken care of by the government... We do not want a benevolent government. We want a free and a just government (Woodrow Wilson Quotes) There is no indispensable man. The government will not collapse and go to pieces if any one of the gentlemen who are seeking to be entrusted with its guidance should be left at home (Woodrow Wilson Quotes) There’s not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else’s brains (Woodrow Wilson Quotes) The law that will work is merely the summing up in legislative form of the moral judgment that the community has already reached (Woodrow Wilson Quotes) We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class of necessity in every society, to forgo the privilege of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks (Woodrow Wilson Quotes) 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. There are many voices of counsel, but few voices of vision; there is much excitement and feverish activity, but little concert of thoughtful purpose. We are distressed by our own ungoverned, undirected energies and do many things, but nothing long. It is our duty to find ourselves (Woodrow Wilson Quotes) 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 Quotes) We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter’s evening. Some of us let these dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true (Woodrow Wilson Quotes) No thoughtful man ever came to the end of his life, and had time and a little space of calm from which to look back upon it, who did not know and acknowledge that it was what he had done unselfishly and for others, and nothing else, that satisfied him in the retrospect, and made him feel that he had played the man (Woodrow Wilson Quotes) 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 in humiliation, under duress, at an intolerable sacrifice and would leave a sting, a resentment, a bitter memory upon which terms of peace would rest, not permanently, but only as upon quicksand. Only a peace between equals can last (Woodrow Wilson Quotes) 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. We come not for their sakes but for our own, in order that we may drink at the same springs of inspiration from which they themselves drank (Woodrow Wilson Quotes) The history of liberty is the history of limitations on the power of government, not the increase of it. When we resist, therefore, the concentration of power, we are resisting the processes of death, because concentration of power is what always precedes the destruction of human liberties (Woodrow Wilson Quotes) 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 the community to determine its own destiny and that of its members. Men as communities are supreme over men as individuals. Limits of wisdom and convenience to the public control there may be: limits of principle there are, upon strict analysis, none (Woodrow Wilson Quotes) Since trade ignores national boundaries and the manufacturer insists on having the world as a market, the flag of his nation must follow him, and the doors of the nations which are closed against him must be battered down. Concessions obtained by financiers must be safeguarded by ministers of state, even if the sovereignty of unwilling nations be outraged in the process. Colonies must be obtained or planted, in order that no useful corner of the world may be overlooked or left unused (Woodrow Wilson Quotes) 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 all our activities are in the hands of a few men who, even if their action be honest and intended for the public interest, are necessarily concentrated upon the great undertakings in which their own money is involved and who necessarily, by very reason of their own limitations, chill and check and destroy genuine economic freedom (Woodrow Wilson Quotes) 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 republic like our own their indisputable right to criticize their own public officials. While exercising the great powers of the office I hold, I would regret in a crisis like the one through which we are now passing to lose the benefit of patriotic and intelligent criticism (Woodrow Wilson Quotes) The supreme test of the nation has come. We must all speak, act, and serve together! (Woodrow Wilson Quotes) He is not a true man of the world who knows only the present fashions of it (Woodrow Wilson Quotes)

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