Woodrow Wilson Quotes

"If you want to make enemies, try to change something."
-Woodrow Wilson

"A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits."
-Woodrow Wilson in Conservatives quotes.

"Here is a great body of our Jewish citizens from whom have sprung men of genius in every walk of our varied life; men who have conceived of its ideals with singular clearness; and led enterprises with sprit & sagacity... They are not Jews in America, they are American citizens."
-Woodrow Wilson

"When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare."
-Woodrow Wilson

"When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you will have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness, and your own duty."
-Woodrow Wilson

"I'd rather lose a cause that will one day win than win a cause that will some day lose."
-Woodrow Wilson

"Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation."
-Woodrow Wilson in Power quotes.

"Once lead this people into war and they will forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance."
-Woodrow Wilson in Tolerance quotes.

"Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the sovereignty of self-governing people."
-Woodrow Wilson in America quotes.

"Never murder a man when he's busy committing suicide."
-Woodrow Wilson

"No nation is fit to sit in judgement upon any other nation."
-Woodrow Wilson

"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

"The world must be made safe for democracy."
-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 right that it does not need to convince others by force that it is right."
-Woodrow Wilson

"I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow."
-Woodrow Wilson

"The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history."
-Woodrow Wilson in Patriotism quotes.

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

"I used to be a lawyer, but now I am a reformed character."
-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 in America quotes.

"No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acquiescence."
-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 grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true."
-Woodrow Wilson

"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

"One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty councils. The thing is to supply light and not heat."
-Woodrow Wilson

"If a dog will not come to you after he has looked you in face, you should go home and examine your consicence."
-Woodrow Wilson