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"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 are in danger of Germanizing our printing by using them so much, and I have a very decided preference in the matter."
Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924), U.S. president. Letter, September 14, 1896, to Harper and Brothers publishers. The Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson, vol. 10, p. 3, ed. Arthur S. Link. |
"America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses."
Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924), U.S. Democratic politician, president. Speech, April 6, 1912, Chicago. |
"The world is not looking for servants,—there are plenty of these,—but for masters, men who form their purposes and then carry them out, let the consequences be what they may."
Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924), U.S. president. Address, October 25, 1907, to the Philadelphia Society, Princeton University. The Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson, vol. 17, p. 455, ed. Arthur S. Link.
Wilson was speaking to a religious society, after a major defeat by the Princeton trustees. His text: "He that observeth the wind shall not sow, and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap." |
"Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness."
Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924), U.S. Democratic politician, president. speech, Feb. 12, 1909, Chicago. |
"My own ideals for the university are those of a genuine democracy and serious scholarship. These two, indeed, seem to go together."
Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924), U.S. president. Letter, February 1, 1910, to Herbert B. Brougham. The Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson, vol. 20 p. 69, ed. Arthur S. Link. |
"Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions."
Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924), U.S. Democratic politician, president. speech, Aug. 31, 1910, Chattanooga, Tenn. |
"We ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialists—believers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic."
Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924), U.S. president. Woodrow Wilson, The State (1889). The Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson, vol. 6, p. 303, ed. Arthur S. Link.
Writing as a young college professor, Wilson disassociated himself from any specific socialist party. But he did not change this reference in the many subsequent reprintings of his book. |
"In the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach."
Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924), U.S. Democratic politician, president. Speech, May 23, 1912, New York City. |
"The child ... stands upon a place apart, a little spectator of the world, before whom men and women come and go, events fall out, years open their slow story and are noted or let go as his mood chances to serve them. The play touches him not. He but looks on, thinks his own thought, and turns away, not even expecting his cue to enter the plot and speak. He waits,—he knows not for what."
Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924), U.S. president. Princeton baccalaureate address, June 12, 1904. The Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson, vol. 15, p. 364, ed. Arthur S. Link. |
"It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilization itself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things we have always carried closest to our hearts."
Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924), U.S. president. Address, April 2, 1917, to the Congress calling for war on Germany. |
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