Woodrow Wilson Quotes

I have found one can never get anything in life that is worth while without fighting for it.

A politician, a man engaged in party contests, must be an opportunist. Let us give up saying that word as if it contained a slur. If you want to win in party action, I take it for granted that you want to lure the majority to your side. I never heard of any man in his senses who was fishing for a minority.

We can have no sympathy with those who seek the power of government to advance their own personal interests or ambitions.

If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it; what we have to determine now is whether we are big enough, whether we are men enough, whether we are free enough, to take possession again of the government which is our own.

There is more of a nation's politics to be got out of its poetry than out of all its systematic writers on public affairs and constitutions.

We know that there is a standard set for us in the heavens, a standard revealed to us in this book [the Bible] whih is the fixed and eternal standard by which we judge ourselves... Nothing makes America great except her acceptance of those standards of judgement which are written large upon the pages of revelation... Let no man suppose that progress can be divorced from religion, or that there is any other platform for the ministers of reform than the platform written in the utterances of our Lord and Savior. America was born a Christian nation. America was born to exemplify devotion to the elements of righteousness which are derived from the revelations of Holy Scripture.

No man can rationally live, worship, or love his neighbour on an empty stomach.

Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.

We should not only use all the brains we have but all that we can borrow.

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.

If a dog will not come to you after he has looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.”~

Once you lead [the] people into war, they will forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance.
The spirit of ruthless brutality will enter every fiber of our national life, infecting Congress, the courts, the policeman on the beat, the man in the street.

if Germany won it would change the course of our civilization and make the United States a military nation [and] it would check his policy for a better international ethical code

We can afford to exercise the self-restraint of a really great nation which realizes its own strength and scorns to misuse it.

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.