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 More Quotes by Woodrow Wilson More Quotes From Woodrow Wilson I am not one of those who have the least anxiety about the triumph of the principles I have stood for. I have seen fools resist Providence before, and I have seen their destruction, as will come upon these again, utter destruction and contempt. That we shall prevail is as sure as that God reigns. Woodrow Wilson reignanxietyfool All the extraordinary men I have ever known were chiefly extraordinary in their own estimation. Woodrow Wilson self-respectself-esteemmen It recognizes no morality but a sham morality meant for deceit, no honor even among thieves and of a thievish sort, no force but physical force, no intellectual power but cunning, no disgrace but failure, no crime but stupidity. Woodrow Wilson stupidityintellectualhonor I must beg you to indulge me in the matter of hyphens.... You will find that I have marked out a great many in the proofs. We arein danger of Germanizing our printing by using them so much, and I have a very decided preference in the matter. Woodrow Wilson great-menstylematter 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 learningmencivilization There will be no greater burden on our generation than to organize the forces of liberty in our time in order to make our quest ofa new freedom for America. Woodrow Wilson our-generationfreedomamerica The great war that broke so suddenly upon the world two years ago, and which has swept up within its flame so great a part of thecivilized world, has affected us very profoundly.... With its causes and its objects we are not concerned. The obscure fountains from which its stupendous flood has burst we are not interested to search for or explore. Woodrow Wilson flameswaryears It has become a people's war, and peoples of all sorts and races, of every degree of power and variety of fortune, are involved inits sweeping processes of change and settlement. Woodrow Wilson racewarpeople Never for a moment have I had one doubt about my religious beliefs. There are people who believe only so far as they can understand--that seems to me presumptuous and sets their understanding as the standard of the universe. Woodrow Wilson religiousfaithbelieve There is one thing that the American people always rise to and extend their hand to and that is the truth of justice, and of liberty, and of peace. We have accepted that truth and we are going to led by itand through us the world, out into pastures of quietness and peace such as the world never dreamed of before. Woodrow Wilson truthpeacehands There is a very holy and a very terrible isolation for the conscience of every man who seeks to read the destiny in affairs for others as well as for himself, for a nation as well as for individuals. That privacy no man can intrude upon. That lonely search of the spirit for the right perhaps no man can assist. Woodrow Wilson destinylonelyloneliness Scholarship cannot do without literature.... It needs literature to float it, to set it current, to authenticate it to all the race, to get it out of closets and into the brains of men who stir abroad. Woodrow Wilson racebrainmen Sciencehas won for us a great liberty in the physical world, a liberty from superstitious fear and from disease, a freedom touse nature as a familiar servant; but it has not freed us from ourselves. Woodrow Wilson libertyscienceworld America is the place where you cannot kill your government by killing the men who conduct it. Woodrow Wilson killingmenamerica 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 memorial-dayinspirationspring It is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shouting at you. Woodrow Wilson shoutingcriticismmen Let him [the President] once win the admiration and confidence of the country, and no other single force can withstand him, no combination of forces will easily overpower him.... If he rightly interpret the national thought and boldly insist upon it, he is irresistible; and the country never feels the zest of action so much as when the President is of such insight and caliber. Woodrow Wilson zestwinningcountry The allied nations with the fullest concurrence of our government and people are agreed that in Palestine shall be laid the foundations of a Jewish Commonwealth. Woodrow Wilson governmentisraelpeople 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 caregovernmenttaken One cannot pay the price of self-respect. Woodrow Wilson pay-the-priceself-respectself-esteem
