Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Woodrow Wilson (American Head of State)

Thomas Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924) was a Democratic Party political leader who served the 28th president of the United States from 1913 until 1921. He led the country into World War I, played a principal role in the ensuing peace negotiations, and led the creation of the League of Nations. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1919.

Wilson was a renowned professor of law and political science and an inventive president of Princeton University before he launched his exceptional political career, first as governor of the state of New Jersey and then as president of the United States.

As President, Wilson carried out a series of successful administrative and fiscal reforms. His “New Freedom” policy cut trade tariffs, imposed the first federal income tax, recognized the banking system, formed the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Trade Commission, increased protection for trade unions, boosted workmen’s compensation, and set restrictions on child labor.

Following the outbreak of World War I in Europe in 1914, America preserved its neutral status. However, when the Germans reintroduced unrestricted submarine warfare, Wilson entered the war on the Allied side in April 1917. Wilson’s well-known “Fourteen Points” speech of January 1918 stressed the principles of democracy and self-determination and guided an eventual peace treaty that ended the war.

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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
Woodrow Wilson
Topics: Government

Nothing was ever done so systematically as nothing is being done now.
Woodrow Wilson
Topics: Procrastination

It must be peace without victory; only a peace between equals can last.
Woodrow Wilson
Topics: Peace, Victory

There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.
Woodrow Wilson
Topics: Power

I would rather lose in a cause that will someday win, than win in a cause that will someday lose.
Woodrow Wilson

If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. Character is a by-product, and any man who devotes himself to its cultivation in his own case will become a selfish prig.
Woodrow Wilson
Topics: Character

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.
Woodrow Wilson
Topics: America

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

All things come to him who waits—provided he knows what he is waiting for.
Woodrow Wilson
Topics: Difficulty, Patience, Life

If you think too much about being re-elected,
it is very difficult to be worth re-electing.
Woodrow Wilson
Topics: Posterity

The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.
Woodrow Wilson
Topics: Listening

Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.
Woodrow Wilson
Topics: Character

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
Woodrow Wilson
Topics: Wisdom, Quotations, Knowledge

I am not one of those who believe that a great army is the means of maintaining peace, because if you build up a great profession those who form parts of it want to exercise their profession.
Woodrow Wilson
Topics: Peace

We grow by our dreams.
Woodrow Wilson
Topics: Reason, Dreams, Thought

My own ideals for the university are those of a genuine democracy and serious scholarship. These two, indeed, seem to go together.
Woodrow Wilson

We want the spirit of America to be efficient; we want American character to be efficient; we want American character to display itself in what I may, perhaps, be allowed to call spiritual efficiency—clear disinterested thinking and fearless action along the right lines of thought.
Woodrow Wilson
Topics: Character

No one who has read official documents needs to be told how easy it is to conceal the essential truth under the apparently candid and all-disclosing phrases of a voluminous and particularizing report….
Woodrow Wilson
Topics: Deception/Lying

Genius is divine perseverance. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have.
Woodrow Wilson
Topics: Perseverance

All the extraordinary men I have known were extraordinary in their own estimation.
Woodrow Wilson
Topics: Self-Esteem, Self Respect

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

I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately triumph than to triumph in a cause that will ultimately fail
Woodrow Wilson
Topics: Success & Failure, Success, Failure

The sum of the whole matter is this, that our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually
Woodrow Wilson
Topics: Survival

Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.
Woodrow Wilson
Topics: Golf

We should not only use the brains we have, but all that we can borrow.
Woodrow Wilson
Topics: Intelligence

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

I feel the responsibility of the occasion? Responsibility is proportionate? to opportunity.
Woodrow Wilson
Topics: Responsibility

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
Woodrow Wilson

They imply, first of all, that it must be a peace without victory. It is not pleasant to say this. I beg that I may be permitted to put my own interpretation upon it and that it may be understood that no other interpretation was in my thought. I am seeking only to face realities and to face them without soft concealments. Victory would mean peace forced upon the loser, a victor’s terms imposed upon the vanquished. It would be accepted in humiliation, under duress, at an intolerable sacrifice, and would leave a sting, a resentment, a bitter memory upon which terms of peace would rest, not permanently, but only as upon quicksand. Only a peace between equals can last, only a peace the very principle of which is equality and a common participation in a common benefit. The right state of The Mind right feeling between nations, is as necessary for a lasting peace as is the just settlement of vexed questions of territory or of racial and national allegiance.
Woodrow Wilson
Topics: Peace

The commands of democracy are as imperative as its privileges and opportunities are wide and generous. Its compulsion is upon us.
Woodrow Wilson
Topics: Responsibility

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