Words matter. These are the best Woodrow Wilson Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
If you think too much about being re-elected, it is very difficult to be worth re-electing.
The seed of revolution is repression.
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.
If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape.
The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.
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.
A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
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.
When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.
America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal – to discover and maintain liberty among men.
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.
Generally young men are regarded as radicals. This is a popular misconception. The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life.
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.
A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
The method of political science is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions.
Property as compared with humanity, as compared with the red blood in the American people, must take second place, not first place.
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.
I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
I will not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with respect of the past.
Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.
He is not a true man of the world who knows only the present fashions of it.
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.
If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.
Tell me what is right and I will fight for it.
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.
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 American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.
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.
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 history of liberty is a history of resistance.
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.
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 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.
There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
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.
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.
It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.
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.
