Woodrow Wilson Quotes, Leadership Quotes, Real Quotes

Your real statesman is first of all, and chief of all, a great human being, with an eye for all the great fields on which men likehimself struggle, with unflagging, pathetic hope, toward better things.... He is a guide, a counselor, a mentor, a servant, a friend of mankind.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Woodrow Wilson Quotes , Leadership Quotes , Real Quotes

Every one at the bottom of his heart cherishes vanity; even the toad thinks himself good-looking,--"rather tawny perhaps, but look at his eye!

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Woodrow Wilson Quotes , Heart Quotes , Eye Quotes

No peace can last, or ought to last, which does not recognize and accept the principle that governments derive all their just powers from the consent of the governed, and that no right anywhere exists to hand peoples from sovereignty to sovereignty as if they were property.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Woodrow Wilson Quotes , Government Quotes , Hands Quotes

I have received delegations of working men who, apparently speaking with the utmost sincerity, have declared that they would regard it as a genuine hardship if they were deprived of their beer, for example.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Woodrow Wilson Quotes , Beer Quotes , Men Quotes

...men are not put into this world to go the path of ease, they are put into this world to go the path of pain and struggle.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Woodrow Wilson Quotes , Pain Quotes , War Quotes

If you lose your wealth, you have lost nothing; if you lose your health, you have lost something; but if you lose your character, you have lost everything.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Woodrow Wilson Quotes , Character Quotes , Healthy Quotes

It's harder for a leader to be born in a palace than to be born in a cabin.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Woodrow Wilson Quotes , Leader Quotes , Palaces Quotes

Music says nothing to the reason: it is a kind of closely structured nonsense.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Woodrow Wilson Quotes , Kind Quotes , Nonsense Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Woodrow Wilson Quotes , Twilight Quotes , Experience Quotes

Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Woodrow Wilson Quotes , 4th Of July Quotes , Patriotic Quotes

The men who act stand nearer to the mass of man than the men who write; and it is in their hands that new thought gets its translation into the crude language of deeds.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Woodrow Wilson Quotes , Writing Quotes , Men Quotes

Opinion is the great, indeed the only coordinating force in our system.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Woodrow Wilson Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Opinion Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Woodrow Wilson Quotes , Taken Quotes , Government Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Woodrow Wilson Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Political Quotes

The Americans who went to Europe to die are a unique breed.... (They) crossed the seas to a foreign land to fight for a cause which they did not pretend was peculiarly their own, which they knew was the cause of humanity and mankind. These Americans gave the greatest of all gifts, the gift of life and the gift of spirit.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Woodrow Wilson Quotes , Fighting Quotes , Unique Quotes

We shall fight for a universal dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world itself at last free.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Woodrow Wilson Quotes , Peace Quotes , Fighting Quotes

Open covenants of peace, openly arrived at.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Woodrow Wilson Quotes , Presidential Quotes , Covenant Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Woodrow Wilson Quotes , Kings Quotes , Cynical Quotes

My own ideals for the university are those of a genuine democracy and serious scholarship. These two, indeed, seem to go together.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Woodrow Wilson Quotes , Two Quotes , Democracy Quotes

It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Woodrow Wilson Quotes , Regret Quotes , Writing Quotes