Quotes by Woodrow Wilson
Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.
I will not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with respect of the past.
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.
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.
Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.
The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.
Interest does not tie nations together; it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.
If you think too much about being re-elected, it is very difficult to be worth re-electing.
I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.
A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
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.
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 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.
