Statesman Woodrow Wilson Quotes & Sayings

Had all the world been a school and Wilson its principal, he would have been the greatest statesman in history. — Barbara W. Tuchman

Is love freedom or is it bondage? — Erica Jong

That is Gladstone, the greatest statesman that ever lived. I intend to be a statesman, too. — Woodrow Wilson

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. — Woodrow Wilson

Let us award a just, a brilliant homage to those rare men whom nature has endowed with the precious privilege of arranging a thousand isolated facts, of making seductive theories spring from them; but let us not forget to state, that the scythe of the reaper had cut the stalks before one had thought of uniting them into sheaves! — Francois Arago

Sometimes buying early on the way down looks like being wrong, but it isn't. — Seth Klarman

Had my dad not been short and fat and balding, there's no doubt his career would have been very different. But he could do lots of stuff and made a very good career out of it. He had an incredible work ethic because he lost his father when he was very young, and the family had to pull together. — Rory Kinnear

Another very common use, in all cultures, of psychoactive substances is to give people transcendent experiences. To allow them to transcend their human and ego boundaries to feel greater contact with the supernatural, or with the spiritual, or with the divine, however they phrase it in their terms. — Andrew Weil

Once your career becomes about something other than the music, then that's what it is. I'll never make that mistake. — Eric Church

That story, as all good stories, planted a seed in my soul and never left me. — Chigozie Obioma

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