Quotes By Woodrow Wilson

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.

I have come slowly into possession of such powers as I have. I receive the opinions of my day. I do not conceive them. But I receive them into a vivid mind.

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

The history of liberty is a history of resistance.

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

He is not a true man of the world who knows only the present fashions of it.

So far as the colleges go, the sideshows are swallowing up the circus.

I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.

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

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.

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

My own ideals for the university are those of a genuine democracy and serious scholarship. These two, indeed, seem to go together.

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.

Princeton is no longer a thing for Princeton men to please themselves with. Princeton is a thing with which Princeton men must satisfy the country.

The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.

Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.

You are not here merely to make a living. 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, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.

Every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells, and when I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is growing or swelling.

The method of political science is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions.

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

Neutrality is a negative word. It does not express what America ought to feel. We are not trying to keep out of trouble; we are trying to preserve the foundations on which peace may be rebuilt.

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

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.

America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses.

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

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