Quotes by Woodrow Wilson
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.
There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
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.
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.
The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.
America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.
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.
So far as the colleges go, the sideshows are swallowing up the circus.
America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal - to discover and maintain liberty among men.
Property as compared with humanity, as compared with the red blood in the American people, must take second place, not first place.
Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.
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.
That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
My own ideals for the university are those of a genuine democracy and serious scholarship. These two, indeed, seem to go together.
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.
Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.
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 the hot tears of wrath.
Never attempt to murder a man who is committing suicide.
What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.
By 'radical,' I understand one who goes too far; by 'conservative,' one who does not go far enough; by 'reactionary,' one who won't go at all.
