Woodrow Wilson Quotes

You are not here merely to making a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more a...

No man can rationally live, worship, or love his neighbour on an empty stomach.

If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are goi...

How is the schoolmaster, the nation, to know which boy needs the whipping?

Interest does not tie nations together it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding d...

We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a ve...

A man's rootage is more important than his leafage.

The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to f...

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.

The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of ...

If you want to make enemies try to change something.

A friend of mine says that every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells and when...

A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it ...

1 have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty and business liberty and every other ...

The men who act stand nearer to the mass of man than the men who write and it is in their hands tha...

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history...

A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.

There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and t...

All things come to him who waits- provided he knows what he is waiting for.

Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact t...

You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the b...

You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.

Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.

To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.

The immortality of Thomas Jefferson does not lie in any one of his achievements, or in the series of...

Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the...

When Andrew Jackson died someone asked a friend if he thought Old Hickory would go to heaven. 'He wi...

The method of political science is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice und...

When you come into the presence of a leader of men you know that you have come into the presence of...

The world must be made safe for democracy.

Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the governm...

We can afford to exercise the self-restraint of a really great nation which realizes its own strengt...

I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being.

If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine yo...

We have begun a fight that it may be will take many a generation to complete...but you know that men...

No man ever saw a government. I live in the midst of the Government of the United States but I neve...

One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty councils. The thing to do is to supply light and not hea...

A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.

You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spir...

The history of liberty is a history of resistance.

I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teach...

Some Americans need hyphens in their names because only part of them has come over but when the wh...

The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of ...

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all I can borrow.

America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free...

Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most signific...

The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their em...

It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war into the most terrible and disast...

The way to stop financial "joy-riding" is to arrest the chauffeur not the automobile.

Neutrality is a negative word. It does not express what America ought to feel. We are not trying to ...

No task rightly done is truly private. It is part of the world's work.

One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not hea...

We will presently find that we are not so far apart after all, that the points on which we differ ar...

I not only use all the brains I have but all I can borrow.

I'm a vague conjunctured personality more made up of opinions and academic prepossessions than of ...

In the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neig...

Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.

There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.

A politician, a man engaged in party contests, must be an opportunist. Let us give up saying that wo...

A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great govern...

It is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shooting at you.

Friendship Quote of the Week:"Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together"…...

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amp...

Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.

It would be the irony of fate if my administration had to deal chiefly with foreign affairs.

It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.

We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in g...

Some people have a large circle of friends while others have only friends that they like.

Nothing was ever done so systematically as nothing is being done now.

I will not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with respect of the past.

If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

If you think about what you ought to do for other people your character will take care of itself.

There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives...

Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.

I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in ...