If I cannot retain my moral influence over a man except by occasionally knocking him down, if that is the only basis upon which he will respect me, then for the sake of his soul I have got occasionally to knock him down.


Wit and Wisdom of Woodrow Wilson (ed. Best Books, 1916)

Woodrow Wilson Quotes

If I cannot retain my moral influence over a man except by occasionally knocking him down, if that is the only basis upon which he will respect me,...

If I cannot retain my moral influence over a man except by occasionally knocking him down, if that is the only basis upon which he will respect me,...

If I cannot retain my moral influence over a man except by occasionally knocking him down, if that is the only basis upon which he will respect me,...

If I cannot retain my moral influence over a man except by occasionally knocking him down, if that is the only basis upon which he will respect me,...