Woodrow Wilson Quotes

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Woodrow Wilson Quotes

All Courageous Philosophical Hopeful Creative Grateful 459 quotes · page 21 of 39

Politician

Thoughtful

“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.”

Giving Mistake Education

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Woodrow Wilson

Politician

Wise

“The rule for every man is, not to depend on the education which other men have prepared for him-not even to consent to it; but to strive to see things as they are, and to be himself as he is. Defeat lies in self-surrender.”

Men Lying Educational

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Philosophical

“Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.”

Government Democracy

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Hopeful

“Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.”

Political Politics

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Courageous

“War is only a sort of dramatic representation, a sort of dramatic symbol of a thousand forms of duty. I fancy that it is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shooting at you.”

Men War Shooting

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Courageous

“We want the spirit of America to be efficient; we want American character to be efficient; we want American character to display itself in what I may, perhaps, be allowed to call spiritual efficiency - clear disinterested thinking and fearless action”

Thinking Character Spiritual

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Spiritual

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

Friendship Equality

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Grateful

“My best training came from my father.”

Funny Father

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Philosophical

“Justice has nothing to do with expediency. Justice has nothing to do with any temporary standard whatever. It is rooted and grounded in the fundamental instincts of humanity.”

Justice Humanity Fundamentals

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Angry

“The Government of the United States would be constrained to hold the Imperial German government to a strict accountability for such acts of their naval authorities.”

War Government Accountability

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Curious

“Your enlightenment depends on the company you keep. You do not know the world until you know the men who have possessed it and tried its wares before you were ever given your brief run upon it.”

Men Running Company You Keep

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Philosophical

“Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the sovereignty of self-governing people.”

People Self America

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