Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
—Woodrow Wilson
Topics: Democracy
The sum of the whole matter is this, that our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually
—Woodrow Wilson
Topics: Survival
Nothing was ever done so systematically as nothing is being done now.
—Woodrow Wilson
Topics: Procrastination
There is no such thing as a man being too proud to fight; 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.
—Woodrow Wilson
Topics: Nation, Fighting, Atheism, War
I would rather lose in a cause that will someday win, than win in a cause that will someday lose.
—Woodrow Wilson
They are not Jews in America; they are American citizens.
—Woodrow Wilson
Topics: Jews
A radical is one of whom people say ‘He goes too far.’ A conservative, on the other hand, is one ‘who doesn’t go far enough.’ Then there is the reactionary, ‘one who doesn’t go at all.’ All these terms are more or less objectionable, wherefore we have coined the term progressive.
—Woodrow Wilson
Topics: Progress
You cannot become thorough Americans if you think of yourselves in groups. America does not consist of groups. A man who thinks of himself as belonging to a particular national group in America has not yet become an American.
—Woodrow Wilson
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.
—Woodrow Wilson
Topics: Youth
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.
—Woodrow Wilson
Topics: America, Wishes
There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.
—Woodrow Wilson
Topics: Peace
A man is not as big as his belief in himself;
he is as big as the number of persons who believe in him.
—Woodrow Wilson
Topics: Inspiration
I fancy that it is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shooting at you.
—Woodrow Wilson
Topics: Criticism, Critics
America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.
—Woodrow Wilson
Topics: Individuality
One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
—Woodrow Wilson
Topics: Judgement, Judging, Judgment, Wisdom
We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.
—Woodrow Wilson
Topics: World
The seed of revolution is repression.
—Woodrow Wilson
Topics: Revolution
Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.
—Woodrow Wilson
Topics: Politics
All things come to him who waits—provided he knows what he is waiting for.
—Woodrow Wilson
Topics: Patience, Difficulty, Life
We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter’s evening. Some of us let these dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who hope that their dreams will come true.
—Woodrow Wilson
Topics: Growth, Dreams
No task, rightly done, is truly private. It is part of the world’s work.
—Woodrow Wilson
Topics: Work
We grow by our dreams.
—Woodrow Wilson
Topics: Dreams, Thought, Reason
My own ideals for the university are those of a genuine democracy and serious scholarship. These two, indeed, seem to go together.
—Woodrow Wilson
Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.
—Woodrow Wilson
Topics: Fear
No nation is fit to set in judgment upon any other nation.
—Woodrow Wilson
Topics: Government
Only free people can hold their purpose and their honor steady to a common end, and prefer the interest of mankind to any narrow interest of their own.
—Woodrow Wilson
Topics: Curiosity, Government
Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it
—Woodrow Wilson
Topics: Liberty, Freedom, Government
The way to stop financial “joy-riding” is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.
—Woodrow Wilson
Topics: Business, Money
The success of a party means little more than that the Nation is using the party for a large and definite purpose. It seeks to use and interpret a change in its own plans and point of view.
—Woodrow Wilson
Topics: Politics
There is no question what the roll of honor in America is. The roll of honor consists of the names of men who have squared their conduct by ideals of duty.
—Woodrow Wilson
Topics: Honor
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