Woodrow Wilson Quotes

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Woodrow Wilson Quotes

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Politician

Philosophical

“The legislator must be in advance of his age. Across the mind of the statesman flash ever and anon the brilliant, though partial, intimations of future events.... Something which is more than fore-sight and less than prophetic knowledge marks the statesman a peculiar being among his contemporaries.”

Mind Age Sight

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Woodrow Wilson

Politician

Motivated

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

Thinking Political Politics

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Angry

“A sure sign of an amateur is too much detail to compensate for too little life.”

Littles Too Much

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Hopeful

“All things come to him who waits”

Waiting Patience

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Optimistic

“I believe in human liberty as I believe in the wine of life. There is no salvation for men in the pitiful condescension of industrial masters. Guardians have no place in a land of freemen.”

Men Believe Wine

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Courageous

“The success of a party means little except when the nation is using that party for a large and definite purpose. No one can mistake the purpose for which the nation now seeks to use the Democratic party. It seeks to use it to interpret a change in its own plans and point of view.”

Mean Party Views

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Courageous

“Tell me what is right and I will fight for it.”

Fighting

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Grateful

“We shall not, I believe, be obliged to alter our policy of watchful waiting.”

Believe Waiting

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Courageous

“There has been something crude and heartless and unfeeling in our haste to suceed and be great. Our thought has been 'Let every man look out for himself, let every generation look out for itself,' while we reared giant machinery which made it impossible that any but those who stood at the levers of control should have a chance to look out for themselves.”

Men Success Should Have

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Courageous

“I had rather be defeated in a cause that will ultimately triumph than triumph in a cause that will ultimately be defeated.”

Inspirational Success Failure

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Spiritual

“Death, like the quintessence of otherness, is for others.”

Otherness Quintessence

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Regretful

“An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of Democracy”

Democracy Invisible

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