All Woodrow Wilson Quotes
There are blessed intervals when I forget by one means or another that I am President of the United States.
Woodrow Wilson
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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.
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The method of political science is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions.
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That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
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Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.
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I have come slowly into possession of such powers as I have. I receive the opinions of my day. I do not conceive them. But I receive them into a vivid mind.
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I am not sure that it is of the first importance that you should be happy. Many an unhappy man has been of deep service to himself and to the world.
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He is not a true man of the world who knows only the present fashions of it.
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Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
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Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
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A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
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There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with.
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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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There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
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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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