Quotes By Woodrow Wilson

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.

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.

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

The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them.

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

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.

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

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.

Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.