Woodrow Wilson Quotes

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

~ Woodrow Wilson

We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.

~ Woodrow Wilson

You are not here merely to making a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement.

~ Woodrow Wilson

We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study.

~ Woodrow Wilson

We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class of necessity in every society, to forgo the privilege of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks.

~ Woodrow Wilson

You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world.

~ Woodrow Wilson

Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.

~ Woodrow Wilson

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all I can borrow.

~ Woodrow Wilson

Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of government is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is the history of the limitation of government, not the increase of it.

~ Woodrow Wilson

It would be the irony of fate if my administration had to deal chiefly with foreign affairs.

~ Woodrow Wilson

How is the schoolmaster, the nation, to know which boy needs the whipping?

~ Woodrow Wilson

The immortality of Thomas Jefferson does not lie in any one of his achievements, or in the series of his achievements, but in his attitude towards mankind and the conception which he sought to realize in action of the service owed by America to the rest of the world...Thomas Jefferson was a great leader of men because he understood and interpreted the spirits of men.

~ Woodrow Wilson

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

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. But we shall not be poor if we love liberty, because the nation that loves liberty truly sets every man free to do his best and be his best.

~ Woodrow Wilson

No man can rationally live, worship, or love his neighbour on an empty stomach.

~ Woodrow Wilson

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

~ Woodrow Wilson

We can afford to exercise the self-restraint of a really great nation which realizes its own strength and scorns to misuse it.

~ Woodrow Wilson

If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.

~ Woodrow Wilson

If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it; what we have to determine now is whether we are big enough, whether we are men enough, whether we are free enough, to take possession again of the government which is our own.

~ Woodrow Wilson

We have begun a fight that it may be will take many a generation to complete...but you know that men are not put into this world to go the path of ease; they are put into this world to go the path of pain and struggle...We have given our lives to the enterprise, and that is richer and the moral is greater.

~ Woodrow Wilson

Friendship Quote of the Week:Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together…Woodrow Wilson, U.S. President and World Leader

~ Woodrow Wilson

A politician, a man engaged in party contests, must be an opportunist. Let us give up saying that word as if it contained a slur. If you want to win in party action, I take it for granted that you want to lure the majority to your side. I never heard of any man in his senses who was fishing for a minority.

~ Woodrow Wilson

If you think about what you ought to do for other people your character will take care of itself.

~ Woodrow Wilson

To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.

~ Woodrow Wilson

If you want to make enemies try to change something.

~ Woodrow Wilson

When Andrew Jackson died someone asked a friend if he thought Old Hickory would go to heaven. 'He will if he wants to ' was the reply. On his death bed Disraeli declined a visit from Queen Victoria. 'No it is better not' he said 'she would only ask me to take a message to Albert.' I am a broken machine. I am ready to go.

~ Woodrow Wilson

All things come to him who waits- provided he knows what he is waiting for.

~ Woodrow Wilson

You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.

~ Woodrow Wilson

A friend of mine says that 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.

~ Woodrow Wilson

No man ever saw a government. I live in the midst of the Government of the United States but I never saw the Government of the United States.

~ Woodrow Wilson

Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

~ Woodrow Wilson

When you come into the presence of a leader of men you know that you have come into the presence of fire - that it is best not uncautiously to touch that man - that there is something that makes it dangerous to cross him.

~ Woodrow Wilson

The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty. We have no selfish ends to serve. We desire no conquest no domination. We seek no indemnities for ourselves no material compensation for the sacrifices we shall freely give. We are but one of the champions of the rights of mankind. We shall be satisfied when those rights have been made as secure as the faith and freedom of nations can make them.

~ Woodrow Wilson

I'm a vague conjunctured personality more made up of opinions and academic prepossessions than of human traits and red corpuscles.

~ Woodrow Wilson

Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.

~ Woodrow Wilson

I will not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with respect of the past.

~ Woodrow Wilson

One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.

~ Woodrow Wilson

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

~ Woodrow Wilson

There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.

~ Woodrow Wilson

The method of political science is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions.

~ Woodrow Wilson