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Some of us let our dreams die, but others nourish and protect them, nurse them through bad days 'till they bring them to sunshine and light.
— Woodrow Wilson
I want the people to love me, but I suppose they never will.
— Woodrow Wilson
We grow by our dreams.
— Woodrow Wilson
But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts
— Woodrow Wilson
A presidential campaign may easily degenerate into a mere personal contest, and so lose its real dignity. There is no indispensable man.
— Woodrow Wilson
The masters of the government of the United States are the combined capitalists and manufacturers of the United States.
— Woodrow Wilson
Tell me what is right and I will fight for it.
— Woodrow Wilson
I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.
— 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.
— Woodrow Wilson
The roll of honor consists of the names of meant who have squared their conduct by ideals of duty.
— Woodrow Wilson
High society is for those who have stopped working and no longer have anything important to do.
— Woodrow Wilson
A nation is as great, and only as great, as her rank and file.
— Woodrow Wilson
If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
— Woodrow Wilson
A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits.
— Woodrow Wilson
One cool judgement is worth a thousand hasty councils.
— Woodrow Wilson
Liberty cannot live apart from constitutional
— Woodrow Wilson
The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.
— Woodrow Wilson
We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world.
— Woodrow Wilson
The natural man inevitably rebels against mathematics, a mild form of torture that could only be learned by painful processes of drill.
— Woodrow Wilson
When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.
— Woodrow Wilson
I have sometimes heard men say politics must have nothing to do with business, and I have often wished that business had nothing to do with politics.
— Woodrow Wilson
The fewer the desires, the more peace.
— Woodrow Wilson
What every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence.
— Woodrow Wilson
A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
— Woodrow Wilson
The shadows that now lie dark upon our path will soon be dispelled and we shall walk with the light all about us if we but be true to ourselves.
— Woodrow Wilson
A man is not as big as his belief in himself; he is as big as the number of persons who believe in him.
— Woodrow Wilson
A living thing is born.
— Woodrow Wilson
Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the sovereignty of self-governing people.
— Woodrow Wilson
If you think too much about being re-elected, it is very difficult to be worth re-electing.
— Woodrow Wilson
Reality is what I see, not what you see.
— Woodrow Wilson
I would rather fail in a cause that would ultimately succeed, than succeed in a cause that would ultimately fail.
— Woodrow Wilson
The seed of revolution is repression.
— Woodrow Wilson
There's not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else's brains.
— Woodrow Wilson
You must act in your friends' interests whether it pleases them or not; the object of love is to serve, not to win.
— Woodrow Wilson
Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.
— Woodrow Wilson
Movies are like writing history with lightning.
— Woodrow Wilson
My grandparents moved to Texas from the South after the U.S. Civil War and settled on small farms in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area.
— Robert Woodrow Wilson
The world has a habit of going on.
— Woodrow Wilson
Some people have a large circle of friends while others have only friends that they like.
— Woodrow Wilson
A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
— Woodrow Wilson
Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.
— Woodrow Wilson
It is the object of learning, not only to satisfy the curiosity and perfect the spirits of ordinary men, but also to advance civilization.
— Woodrow Wilson
There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.
— Woodrow Wilson
America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.
— Woodrow Wilson
No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.
— Woodrow Wilson
If a man is a fool, the best thing is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.
— Woodrow Wilson
There are blessed intervals when I forget by one means or another that I am President of the United States.
— Woodrow Wilson
I consider myself so lucky.
— Robert Woodrow Wilson
We ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialistsbelievers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic. — Woodrow Wilson
It would be the irony of fate if my administration had to deal chiefly with foreign affairs.
— Woodrow Wilson
Liberty does not consist in mere declarations of the rights of man. It consists in the translation of those declarations into definite action.
— Woodrow Wilson
Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
— Woodrow Wilson
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.
— Woodrow Wilson
Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting.
— Woodrow Wilson
I firmly believe in Divine Providence. Without belief in Providence I think I should go crazy. Without God the world would be a maze without a clue.
— Woodrow Wilson
Today's greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow.
— Woodrow Wilson
The profession I chose was politics; the profession I entered was law. I entered the one because I thought it would lead to the other.
— Woodrow Wilson
We never found a real model (for our vision).
— Woodrow Wilson
My best training came from my father.
— Woodrow Wilson
Self-determination is not a mere phrase. It is an imperative principle of action, which statesmen will henceforth ignore at their peril.
— Woodrow Wilson
Tolerance is an admirable intellectual gift; but it is of little worth in politics.
— Woodrow Wilson
Has justice ever grown in the soil of absolute power? Has not justice always come from the ... heart and spirit of men who resist power?
— Woodrow Wilson
While we are fighting for freedom, we must see, among other things, that labor is free.
— Woodrow Wilson
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
Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.
— Woodrow Wilson
Never murder a man when he's busy committing suicide.
— Woodrow Wilson
A man's rootage is more important than his leafage.
— Woodrow Wilson
America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.
— Woodrow Wilson
The right is more precious than peace.
— Woodrow Wilson
Segregation is not humiliating but a benefit
— Woodrow Wilson
No man has ever risen to the stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.
— Woodrow Wilson
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.
— Woodrow Wilson
When the representatives of "Big Business" think of the people, they do not include themselves.
— Woodrow Wilson
When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.
— Woodrow Wilson
We must believe the things We teach our children
— Woodrow Wilson
The history of liberty is a history of resistance.
— Woodrow Wilson
One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
— Woodrow Wilson
In the last analysis, my fellow country men, as we in America would be the first to claim, a people are responsible for the acts of their government.
— Woodrow Wilson
Government, in it's last analysis, is organized force.
— Woodrow Wilson
To think that I, the son ofthe manse, should be able to help restore the Holy Land to its people.
— Woodrow Wilson
Death, like the quintessence of otherness, is for others.
— Woodrow Wilson
You know how impossible it is, in short, to have a free nation if it is a military nation and under military orders
— Woodrow Wilson
Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.
— Woodrow Wilson
When correcting a child, the goal is to apply light, not heat.
— Woodrow Wilson
