Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.
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I confess my belief in the common man.... The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.... The man who is in the melee knows what blows are being struck and what blood is being drawn.
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Liberty cannot live apart from constitutional
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Government is not a warfare of interests.
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The nature of men and of organized society dictates the maintenance in every field of action of the highest and purest standards of justice and of right dealing.... By justice the lawyer generally means the prompt, fair, and open application of impartial rules; but we call ours a Christian civilization, and a Christian conception of justice must be much higher. It must include sympathy and helpfulness and a willingness to forego self-interest in order to promote the welfare, happiness, and contentment of others and of the community as a whole.
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Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse. Untrammeled reasoning is the indulgence of the philosopher, of the dreamer of sweet dreams.
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Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the distemper's that make an ordered life impossible.
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Every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells, and when I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing. The mischief of it is that when they swell, they do not swell enough to burst.
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But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts--for democracy, for the right of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their own Governments, for the rights and liberties of small nations, for a universal dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world itself at last free.
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The world can be at peace only if the world is stable, and there can be no stability where the will is in rebellion, where there is not tranquility of spirit and a sense of justice, of freedom, and of right.
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We shall fight for a universal dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world itself at last free.
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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.
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I have sometimes heard men say politics must have nothing to do with business, and I have often wished that business had nothing to do with politics.
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A man has deprived himself of the best there is in the world who has deprived himself of this.
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Never for a moment have I had one doubt about my religious beliefs. There are people who believe only so far as they can understand--that seems to me presumptuous and sets their understanding as the standard of the universe.
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Nothing was ever done so systematically as nothing is being done now.
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An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of Democracy
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I had rather have everybody on my side than be armed to the teeth.
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Conformity will be the only virtue and any man who refuses to conform will have to pay the penalty.
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There is no more subtle dissolvent of morals than sentimentality.
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No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acquiescence.
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If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it.
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If you wish your children to be Christians you must really take the trouble to be Christian yourselves. Those are the only terms upon which the home will work the gracious miracle.
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If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.
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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.
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The world is not looking for servants, there are plenty of these, but for masters, men who form their purposes and then carry them out, let the consequences be what they may.
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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
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Never murder a man when he's busy committing suicide.
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I am not willing to be drawn further into the toils. I cannot accede to the acceptance of gifts upon terms which take the educational policy of the university out of the hands of the Trustees and Faculty and permit it to be determined by those who give money.
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To conquer with arms is to make only a temporary conquest; to conquer the world by earning its esteem is to make a permanent conquest.
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Woodrow Wilson
- Born: December 28, 1856
- Died: February 3, 1924
- Occupation: 28th U.S. President
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