Woodrow Wilson

Woodrow Wilson

"A man's rootage is more important than his leafage."
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"A man's rootage is more important than his leafage."
Woodrow Wilson
"Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life."
Woodrow Wilson
"No man ever saw a government. I live in the midst of the Government of the United States but I never saw the Government of the United States."
Woodrow Wilson
"A friend of mine says that every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells and when I give a man an office I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing."
Woodrow Wilson
"You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality."
Woodrow Wilson
"Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together."
Woodrow Wilson
"All things come to him who waits- provided he knows what he is waiting for."
Woodrow Wilson
"I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being."
Woodrow Wilson
"The world must be made safe for democracy."
Woodrow Wilson
"When Andrew Jackson died someone asked a friend if he thought Old Hickory would go to heaven. 'He will if he wants to ' was the reply. On his death bed Disraeli declined a visit from Queen Victoria. 'No it is better not' he said 'she would only ask me to take a message to Albert.' I am a broken machine. I am ready to go."
Woodrow Wilson
"If you want to make enemies try to change something."
Woodrow Wilson
"To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking."
Woodrow Wilson
"If you think about what you ought to do for other people your character will take care of itself."
Woodrow Wilson
"The way to stop financial "joy-riding" is to arrest the chauffeur not the automobile."
Woodrow Wilson
"Some Americans need hyphens in their names because only part of them has come over but when the whole man has come over heart and thought and all the hyphen drops of its own weight out of his name."
Woodrow Wilson
"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."
Woodrow Wilson
"A politician, a man engaged in party contests, must be an opportunist. Let us give up saying that word as if it contained a slur. If you want to win in party action, I take it for granted that you want to lure the majority to your side. I never heard of any man in his senses who was fishing for a minority."
Woodrow Wilson
"Friendship Quote of the Week:"Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together"…Woodrow Wilson, U. S. President and World Leader"
Woodrow Wilson
"We will presently find that we are not so far apart after all, that the points on which we differ are few and the points on which we agree are many, and that if we only have the patience and the candor and the desire to get together, we will get together."
Woodrow Wilson
"We have begun a fight that it may be will take many a generation to complete...but you know that 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... We have given our lives to the enterprise, and that is richer and the moral is greater."
Woodrow Wilson
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