Woodrow Wilson Quotes

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.

He is not a true man of the world who knows only the present fashions of it.

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

There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with.

Progressiveness means not standing still when everything else is moving.

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.

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

The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.

I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.

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

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.

As compared with the college politician, the real article seems like an amateur.

Tell me what is right and I will fight for it.

What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.

The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.

A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.

The difference between a strong man and a weak one is that the former does not give up after a defeat.