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Woodrow Wilson Quotes

1856–1924 United States

Thomas Woodrow Wilson (28 December 1856 – 3 February 1924) was the 28th president of the United States of America (1913–1921) and the 45th governor of New Jersey (1911–1913). He was the second Democrat to serve two consecutive terms in the White House, after Andrew Jackson, and was the first President from the South to be elected since the American Civil War

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

The New Freedom (1913)

There are those in this country who threaten direct action to force their will, upon a majority.

The instrument of all reform in America is the ballot.

The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it.

No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know.

The New Freedom (1913)

Once lead this people into war and they will forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance.

No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acquiescence.

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

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

We have stood apart, studiously neutral.

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

If you think too much about being re-elected, it is very difficult to be worth re-electing.

The way to stop financial joy-riding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.

The United States must be neutral in fact as well as in name...We must be impartial in thought as well as in action.

There is such a thing as a nation being so right that it does not need to convince others by force that it is right.

The sum of the whole matter is this, that our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually.

You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.

That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.

Let those beware who would take the shorter road of disorder and revolution. The right road is the road of justice and orderly process.

Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Woodrow Wilson (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.