Woodrow Wilson Quotes

Do you never stop to reflect just what it is that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another, it is for the sovereignty of self-governing peoples, and her example, her assistance, her encouragement, has thrilled two continents in this Western World with all the fine impulses which have built up human liberty on both sides of the water.

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.

We have stood apart, studiously neutral.

There is a very great thrill to be had from the memories of the American Revolution, but the American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation, and the duty laid upon us by that beginning is the duty of bringing the things then begun to a noble triumph of completion.

The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history. It represents the experiences made by men and women, the experiences of those who do and live under that flag.

We are constantly thinking of the great war … which which we think to-day as a war which saved the Union, and it did indeed save the Union, but it was a war that did a great deal more than that. It created in this country what had never existed before — a national consciousness. It was not the salvation of the Union, it was the rebirth of the Union.

There is such a thing as a nation being so right that it does not need to convince others by force that it is right.

No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.

There is such thing as a man being too proud to fight.

You deal in the raw material of opinion, and, if my convictions have any validity, opinion ultimately governs the world.

Segregation is not humiliating but a benefit, and ought to be so regarded by you gentlemen. If your organization goes out and tells the colored people of the country that it is a humiliation, they will so regard it, but if you do not tell them so, and regard it rather as a benefit, they will regard it the same. The only harm that will come will be if you cause them to think it is a humiliation... If this organization is ever to have another hearing before me it must have another spokesman. Your manner offends me...

The United States must be neutral in fact as well as in name...We must be impartial in thought as well as in action.

There are blessed intervals when I forget by one means or another that I am President of the United States.

I not only use all the brains I have, but all I can borrow, and I have borrowed a lot since I read it to you first.

The way to stop financial joy-riding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.