Quotes By Woodrow Wilson

The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.

A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.

I am not sure that it is of the first importance that you should be happy. Many an unhappy man has been of deep service to himself and to the world.

Property as compared with humanity, as compared with the red blood in the American people, must take second place, not first place.

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

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

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

America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal - to discover and maintain liberty among men.

My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business, that it is something we owe to each other to understand and discuss with absolute frankness.

What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

At every crisis in one's life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving.

We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study.

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

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

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

Tell me what is right and I will fight for it.

The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous, event of our generation.

The seed of revolution is repression.

I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.

There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with.

The question of armaments, whether on land or sea, is the most immediately and intensely practical question connected with the future fortunes of nations and of mankind.

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

America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.

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