It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.
WOODROW WILSON I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.
WOODROW WILSON If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
WOODROW WILSON America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal - to disco...
WOODROW WILSON A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
WOODROW WILSON Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.
WOODROW WILSON The method of political science is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice und...
WOODROW WILSON Tell me what is right and I will fight for it.
WOODROW WILSON What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organi...
WOODROW WILSON Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact t...
WOODROW WILSON You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the b...
WOODROW WILSON No thoughtful man ever came to the end of his life, and had time and a little space of calm from whi...
WOODROW WILSON The success of a party means little more than that the Nation is using the party for a large and def...
WOODROW WILSON They imply, first of all, that it must be a peace without victory. It is not pleasant to say this. I...
WOODROW WILSON There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One can...
WOODROW WILSON There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an org...
WOODROW WILSON There is no such thing as a man being too proud to fight; there is such a thing as a nation being so...
WOODROW WILSON The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past m...
WOODROW WILSON I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than succeed in a cause that will ultima...
WOODROW WILSON You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.
WOODROW WILSON No man has ever risen to the real stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer t...
WOODROW WILSON Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the ...
WOODROW WILSON The interesting and inspiring thing about America is that she asks nothing for herself except what s...
WOODROW WILSON If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itse...
WOODROW WILSON Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.
WOODROW WILSON No one who has read official documents needs to be told how easy it is to conceal the essential trut...
WOODROW WILSON It is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shouting at you.
WOODROW WILSON Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are c...
WOODROW WILSON One of the proofs of the divinity of our gospel is the preaching it has survived.
WOODROW WILSON Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
WOODROW WILSON Feast of Monica, Mother of Augustine of Hippo, 387 Christianity is pre-eminently the religion of ...
WOODROW WILSON A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
WOODROW WILSON Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.
WOODROW WILSON If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine yo...
WOODROW WILSON I not only use all the brains that I have, but all I can borrow.
WOODROW WILSON Today's greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow.
WOODROW WILSON Nothing was ever done so systematically as nothing is being done now.
WOODROW WILSON When they the American soldiers came, they found fit comrades for their courage and their devotion.....
WOODROW WILSON The things that the flag stands for were created by the experiences of a great people. Everything th...
WOODROW WILSON All things come to him who waits -- provided he knows what he is waiting for.
WOODROW WILSON America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of ...
WOODROW WILSON Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
WOODROW WILSON Liberty never came from government. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history o...
WOODROW WILSON The truth is, we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless.
WOODROW WILSON I believe in democracy, because it releases the energies of every human being.
WOODROW WILSON Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
WOODROW WILSON America is the place where you cannot kill your government by killing the men who conduct it.
WOODROW WILSON That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
WOODROW WILSON The world must be made safe for democracy.
WOODROW WILSON Only free peoples can hold their purpose and their honor steady to a common end and prefer the inter...
WOODROW WILSON Surely a man has come to himself only when he has found the best that is in him, and has satisfied h...
WOODROW WILSON When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.
WOODROW WILSON The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
WOODROW WILSON There is no question what the roll of honor in America is. The roll of honor consists of the names o...
WOODROW WILSON Generally young men are regarded as radicals. This is a popular misconception. The most conservative...
WOODROW WILSON You cannot become thorough Americans if you think of yourselves in groups. America does not consist ...
WOODROW WILSON In the Lords prayer, the first petition is for daily bread; no one can worship God, or love his neig...
WOODROW WILSON I not only use all the brains I have but all I can borrow.
WOODROW WILSON We should not only master questions,but also act upon them,and act definitely.
WOODROW WILSON Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the bigge...
WOODROW WILSON No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.
WOODROW WILSON A radical is one of whom people say He goes too far. A conservative, on the other hand, is one who d...
WOODROW WILSON The sum of the whole matter is this, that our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be re...
WOODROW WILSON Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.
WOODROW WILSON A little group of willful men reflecting no opinion but their own have rendered the great Government...
WOODROW WILSON All the extraordinary men I have known were extraordinary in their own estimation.
WOODROW WILSON We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day ...
WOODROW WILSON No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not ...
WOODROW WILSON There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives...
WOODROW WILSON I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose!
WOODROW WILSON We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a ve...
WOODROW WILSON I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest saf...
WOODROW WILSON We want the spirit of America to be efficient; we want American character to be efficient; we want A...
WOODROW WILSON In the last analysis, my fellow country men, as we in America would be the first to claim, a people ...
WOODROW WILSON A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits.
WOODROW WILSON Only a peace between equals can last. Only a peace the very principle of which is equality and a com...
WOODROW WILSON The history of liberty is the history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of the limi...
WOODROW WILSON The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.
WOODROW WILSON The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.
WOODROW WILSON Interest does not tie nations together; it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding ...
WOODROW WILSON Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.
WOODROW WILSON There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives...
WOODROW WILSON At every crisis in one's life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom ...
WOODROW WILSON I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
WOODROW WILSON Neutrality is a negative word. It does not express what America ought to feel. We are not trying to ...
WOODROW WILSON The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of ...
WOODROW WILSON There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and t...
WOODROW WILSON You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amp...
WOODROW WILSON One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not hea...
WOODROW WILSON Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
WOODROW WILSON I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in ...
WOODROW WILSON The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to f...
WOODROW WILSON The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their em...
WOODROW WILSON If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are goi...
WOODROW WILSON Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpos...
WOODROW WILSON The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.
WOODROW WILSON In the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his ...
WOODROW WILSON I will not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with respect of the past.
WOODROW WILSON I not only use all the brains I have, but all that I can borrow.
WOODROW WILSON Once lead this people into war and they will forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance.
WOODROW WILSON Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The his...
WOODROW WILSON America is not a mere body of traders; it is a body of free men. Our greatness-built upon freedom-is...
WOODROW WILSON The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of...
WOODROW WILSON No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation.
WOODROW WILSON One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty councils. The thing is to supply light and not heat.
WOODROW WILSON There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
WOODROW WILSON No one who has read official documents needs to be told how easy it is to conceal the essential trut...
WOODROW WILSON I used to be a lawyer, but now I am a reformed character.
WOODROW WILSON The way to stop financial joy-riding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.
WOODROW WILSON Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and ...
WOODROW WILSON There is such a thing as a nation being so right that it does not need to convince others by force t...
WOODROW WILSON We cannot be separated in interest or divided in purpose. We stand together until the end.
WOODROW WILSON There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight; there is such a thing as a nation being so ...
WOODROW WILSON No nation is fit to sit in judgement upon any other nation.
WOODROW WILSON I can imagine no greater disservice to the county than to establish a system of censorship that woul...
WOODROW WILSON We live in an age disturbed, confused, bewildered, afraid of its own forces, in search not merely of...
WOODROW WILSON You are not here merely to make a living. You are here to enable the world to live more amply, with ...
WOODROW WILSON The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
WOODROW WILSON The law that will work is merely the summing up in legislative form of the moral judgement that the ...
WOODROW WILSON No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acq...
WOODROW WILSON Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the...
WOODROW WILSON America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free...
WOODROW WILSON ...it is as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shooting at you.
WOODROW WILSON We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.
WOODROW WILSON We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day ...
WOODROW WILSON Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history...
WOODROW WILSON He is not a true man of the world who knows only the present fashions of it.
WOODROW WILSON The question of armaments, whether on land or sea, is the most immediately and intensely practical q...
WOODROW WILSON My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business, that it is something we ow...
WOODROW WILSON The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most signific...
WOODROW WILSON When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you will have found it th...
WOODROW WILSON: There are blessed intervals when I forget by one means or another that I am President of the United ...
WOODROW WILSON I am not sure that it is of the first importance that you should be happy. Many an unhappy man has b...
WOODROW WILSON A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great govern...
WOODROW WILSON You have the greatest soul, the noblest nature, the sweetest, most loving heart I have ever known, a...
WOODROW WILSON By 'radical,' I understand one who goes too far; by 'conservative', one who does not...
WOODROW WILSON If you think too much about being re-elected, it is very difficult to be worth re-electing.
WOODROW WILSON We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in g...
WOODROW WILSON Princeton is no longer a thing for Princeton men to please themselves with. Princeton is a thing wit...
WOODROW WILSON Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the...
WOODROW WILSON The seed of revolution is repression.
WOODROW WILSON So far as the colleges go, the sideshows are swallowing up the circus.
WOODROW WILSON Every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells, and when I give a man an office, I ...
WOODROW WILSON You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spir...
WOODROW WILSON We have begun a fight that it may be will take many a generation to complete...but you know that men...
WOODROW WILSON The difference between a strong man and a weak one is that the former does not give up after a defea...
WOODROW WILSON Property as compared with humanity, as compared with the red blood in the American people, must take...
WOODROW WILSON The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past ...
WOODROW T. WILSON There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One c...
WOODROW T. WILSON There is such a thing as a nation being so right that it it does not need to convince others by forc...
WOODROW T. WILSON It is easier to change the location of a cemetery, than to change the school curriculum
WOODROW T. WILSON We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.
WOODROW T. WILSON I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in ...
WOODROW T. WILSON I attended public school in Houston. I took piano lessons for several years, and in high school, I p...
ROBERT WOODROW WILSON My high school career was undistinguished except for math and science. However, having barely been a...
ROBERT WOODROW WILSON An antenna collects radiation from a desired direction incident upon an area, called its collecting ...
ROBERT WOODROW WILSON A radiometer is a device for measuring the intensity of radiation. A microwave radiometer consists o...
ROBERT WOODROW WILSON Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
WOODROW T. WILSON No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar
WOODROW T. WILSON You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amp...
WOODROW T. WILSON One of the proofs of the divinity of our gospel is the preaching it has survived
WOODROW T. WILSON The seed of revolution is repression.
WOODROW T. WILSON I can predict with absolute certainty that within another generation there will be another world war...
WOODROW T. WILSON We shall fight for a universal dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples as shall bring pe...
WOODROW T. WILSON The Constitution of the United States is not a mere lawyers' document: it is a vehicle of life, and ...
WOODROW T. WILSON A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
WOODROW T. WILSON Corruption thrives in secret places.
WOODROW T. WILSON I not only use all the brains I have but all I can borrow.
WOODROW T. WILSON We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.
WOODROW T. WILSON All the extraordinary men I have known were extraordinary in their own estimation.
WOODROW T. WILSON No man has ever risen to the real stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer t...
WOODROW T. WILSON Wilson was once asked how long it took him to write a speech. He answered, 'That depends. If I am to...
WOODROW T. WILSON Genius is divine perseverance. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all ...
WOODROW T. WILSON We grow by our dreams.
WOODROW T. WILSON Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness, and all the ugly distempers that make an ordered li...
WOODROW T. WILSON I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.
WOODROW T. WILSON We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day ...
WOODROW T. WILSON If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itse...
WOODROW T. WILSON Never attempt to murder a man who is committing suicide.
WOODROW T. WILSON America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal - to disco...
WOODROW T. WILSON No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach
WOODROW T. WILSON You must act in your friend’s interest whether it pleases him or not; the object of love is to ser...
WOODROW T. WILSON All things come to him who waits -- provided he knows what he is waiting for.
WOODROW T. WILSON The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their em...
WOODROW T. WILSON When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you have found it the key...
WOODROW T. WILSON Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it... The histo...
WOODROW T. WILSON For the interesting and inspiring thing about America, gentlemen, is that she asks nothing for hers...
THOMAS WOODROW WILSON The line of red are lines of blood, nobly and unselfishly shed by men who loved the liberty of thei...
THOMAS WOODROW WILSON I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teach...
WOODROW T. WILSON The sum of the whole matter is this, that our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be re...
WOODROW T. WILSON If I am to speak for ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if fifteen minutes, three days; if ...
WOODROW T. WILSON That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
WOODROW T. WILSON There is a power so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive tha...
WOODROW T. WILSON At every crisis in one's life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you ...
WOODROW T. WILSON There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
WOODROW T. WILSON Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the...
WOODROW T. WILSON America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free...
WOODROW T. WILSON Every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells, and when I give a man an office, I ...
WOODROW T. WILSON I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by it's system of cred...
WOODROW T. WILSON I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
WOODROW T. WILSON