A collection of quotes and thoughts by Thomas Woodrow Wilson on education, league-of-nations, federal-reserve, WWI, enemies, service, hope, vision and strength.
43 Motivational Quotes By Woodrow Wilson That You Should Not Leave Out
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Thomas Woodrow Wilson was a renowned American statesman and the member of the Democratic Party. He held the office of the President of the United States from 1913 to 1921. His tenure as the President included the challenging years of World War I but he showed immense maturity in leading his country. He brought about various social and economic reforms which included the passage of ‘Child Labour Reform Act’ and ‘Federal Reserve Act’. It was also during his administration that the 19th Amendment to that Constitution (that ensured the right of women to vote) was passed. Wilson also received the ‘Noble Peace Prize’ in 1919 for his leadership role in the formation of ‘League Of Nations’. We have compiled quotes and sayings by Woodrow Wilson from his lectures, speeches, debates, writings, thoughts, work and life.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
Woodrow Wilson
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.
A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits.
Woodrow Wilson
The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.
Woodrow Wilson
Some people have a large circle of friends while others have only friends that they like.
[o]f 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.
When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.
Woodrow Wilson
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.
We should not only use all the brains we have but all that we can borrow.
Woodrow Wilson
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.
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
If a dog will not come to you after he has looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.”~
If a man is a fool, the best thing is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.
Woodrow Wilson
Freedom exists only where people take care of the government.
Woodrow Wilson
If Germany won it would change the course of our civilization and make the United States a military nation [and] it would check his policy for a better international ethical code
Woodrow Wilson
How is the schoolmaster, the nation, to know which boy needs the whipping?
Woodrow Wilson
America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses.
