Woodrow Wilson Eugenics Quotes

We should not only master questions, but also act upon them, and act definitely. ~ Woodrow Wilson

It recognizes no morality but a sham morality meant for deceit, no honor even among thieves and of a thievish sort, no force but physical force, no intellectual power but cunning, no disgrace but failure, no crime but stupidity. ~ Woodrow Wilson

Today, supremely, it behooves us to remember that a nation shall be saved by the power that sleeps in its own bosom; or by none; shall be renewed in hope, in confidence, in strength by waters welling up from its own sweet, perennial springs. Not from above; not by patronage of its aristocrats. The flower does not bear the root, but the root the flower. ~ Woodrow Wilson

[Louis Brandeis] at the age of 57 decided to become the head of the American Zionist movement was more influential than anyone else in the 20th century in persuading Woodrow Wilson to recognize a Jewish homeland in Palestine. ~ Jeffrey Rosen

The fewer the desires, the more peace. ~ Woodrow Wilson

A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is privately concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men who, even if their action be honest and intended for the public interest, are necessarily concentrated upon the great undertakings in which their own money is involved and who necessarily, by very reason of their own limitations, chill and check and destroy genuine economic freedom. ~ Woodrow Wilson

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

Has justice ever grown in the soil of absolute power? Has not justice always come from the ... heart and spirit of men who resist power? ~ Woodrow Wilson

America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness which are derived from the revelations of the Holy Scripture. ~ Woodrow Wilson

No nation is fit to sit in judgement upon any other nation. ~ Woodrow Wilson

You devour a book meant to be read, not because you would fill yourself or have an anxious care to be nourished, but because it contains such stuff ~ Woodrow Wilson

To conquer with arms is to make only a temporary conquest; to conquer the world by earning its esteem is to make a permanent conquest. ~ Woodrow Wilson

The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty. ~ Woodrow Wilson

The interesting and inspiring thing about America is that she asks nothing for herself except what she has a right to ask for humanity itself. ~ Woodrow Wilson

Eighty years ago, Woodrow Wilson took America into the twentieth century with a challenge to make the world safe for democracy. As we enter the twenty-first century, our task is to make democracy safe for the world. ~ Fareed Zakaria

I am one who fights without a knack of hoping confidentlysimply a Scotch-Irishman who will not be conquered. ~ Woodrow Wilson

You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world. ~ Woodrow Wilson

Never murder a man when he's busy committing suicide. ~ Woodrow Wilson

There is here a great melting pot in which we must compound a precious metal. That metal is the metal of nationality. ~ Woodrow Wilson

Have you thought of the sufferings of Armenia? You poured out your money to help succor the Armenians after they suffered; now set your strength so that they shall never suffer again. ~ Woodrow Wilson

If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. Character is a by-product, and any man who devotes himself to its cultivation in his own case will become a selfish prig. ~ Woodrow Wilson

Great statesmen seem to direct and rule by a sort of power to put themselves in the place of the nation over which they are set, and may thus be said to possess the souls of poets at the same time they display the coarser sense and the more vulgar sagacity of practical men of business. ~ Woodrow Wilson

No society is renewed from the top and every society is renewed from the bottom. ~ Woodrow Wilson

Woodrow Wilson later wrote: "The Constitution of the United States has been made under the dominion of the Newtonian theory. ~ Andrew Thomas

In the last analysis, my fellow country men, as we in America would be the first to claim, a people are responsible for the acts of their government. ~ Woodrow Wilson

I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty. ~ Woodrow Wilson

That strain of anti-monopoly crusading egalitarianism really runs throughout American history from [Tomas] Jefferson to Woodrow Wilson, that finds its apotheosis in [Louis] Brandeis, continues through the New Deal, but then it sort of peters out in the '60s because progressives in particular become more interested in extending equality to minorities, and women, and other excluded groups, and little more suspicious of these old white guys, often from the south, who were crusaders against monopolies. ~ Jeffrey Rosen

When correcting a child, the goal is to apply light, not heat. ~ Woodrow Wilson

In 1919, at the Paris Peace Conference, Japan had put forward a proposal to guarantee racial equality at the League of Nations, but Woodrow Wilson overturned it in the face of majority support. ~ Pankaj Mishra

The spirit of [William] Penn will not be stayed. You cannot set limits to such knightly adventurers. After their own day is gone their spirits stalk the world, carrying inspiration everywhere that they go and reminding men of the lineage, the fine lineage, of those who have sought justice and right. ~ Woodrow Wilson

We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead. ~ Woodrow Wilson

We are participants, whether we would or not, in the life of the world ... We are partners with the rest. What affects mankind isinevitably our affair as well as the nations of Europe and Asia. ~ Woodrow Wilson

If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience. ~ Woodrow Wilson

This little world, this little state, this little commonwealth of our own ... ~ Woodrow Wilson

Some of the greatest and most lasting effects of genuine oratory have gone forth from secluded lecture desks into the hearts of quiet groups of students. ~ Woodrow Wilson

I used to be a lawyer, but now I am a reformed character. ~ Woodrow Wilson

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. ~ Woodrow Wilson

We should not only use all the brains we have but all that we can borrow. ~ Woodrow Wilson

Remember that God ordained that I should be the next president of the United States. Neither you nor any other mortal or mortals could have prevented this. ~ Woodrow Wilson

The world has a habit of going on. ~ Woodrow Wilson

From the dim morning hours of history when the father was king and priest down to this modern time of history's high noon when nations stand forth full grown and self-governed, the law of coherence and continuity in political development has suffered no serious breach. ~ Woodrow Wilson

Thought cannot conceive of anything that may not be brought to expression. He who first uttered it may be only the suggester, but the doer will appear. ~ Woodrow Wilson

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. ~ Woodrow Wilson

No government has ever been beneficent when the attitude of government was that it was taking care of the people. The only freedom consists in the people taking care of the government. ~ Woodrow Wilson