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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No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know.
—Woodrow Wilson
Topics: Learning

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

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

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: Critics, Criticism

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: Government, Curiosity

Every country is renewed out of the unknown ranks
and not out of the ranks of those
already famous and powerful and in control.
—Woodrow Wilson
Topics: Power

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
—Woodrow Wilson
Topics: Feelings, Friendship, Togetherness, Friends

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: Wishes, America

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

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

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

There is no cause half so sacred as the cause of a people.
There is no idea so uplifting as the idea of the service of humanity.
—Woodrow Wilson
Topics: Service

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.
—Woodrow Wilson
Topics: Nation, Liberty

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

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

My father did enough of it in his lifetime to answer for both of us.
—Woodrow Wilson

America is the place where you cannot kill your government by killing the men who conduct it.
—Woodrow Wilson
Topics: Democracy

No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.
—Woodrow Wilson
Topics: Vision, Prophecy

One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
—Woodrow Wilson
Topics: Judgement, Wisdom, Judgment, Judging

To do thinks today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.
—Woodrow Wilson
Topics: Change

When they the American soldiers came, they found fit comrades for their courage and their devotion…. Joining hands with them, the men of America gave the greatest of all gifts – the gift of life and the gift of spirit.
—Woodrow Wilson
Topics: The Military

If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
—Woodrow Wilson
Topics: One liners, Change, Enemy

The nation’s honor is dearer than the nation’s comfort; yes, than the nation’s life itself.
—Woodrow Wilson
Topics: Honor

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

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

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

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

The truth is, we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless.
—Woodrow Wilson
Topics: Economics

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

The things that the flag stands for were created by the experiences of a great people. Everything that it stands for was written by their lives. The flag is the embodiment not of sentiment, but of history.
—Woodrow Wilson
Topics: Patriotism

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