Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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101. “The profession I chose was politics; the profession I entered was law. I entered the one because I thought it would lead to the other.”

— Woodrow Wilson

102. “I am all kinds of a democrat, so far as I can discover but the root of the whole business is this, that I believe in the patriotism and energy and initiative of the average man.”

— Woodrow Wilson

103. “It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilizationitself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things we have always carried closest to our hearts.”

— Woodrow Wilson

104. “The Bible is the one supreme source of revelation of the meaning of life, the nature of God and spiritual nature and need of men. It is the only guide of life which really leads the spirit in the way of peace and salvation.”

— Woodrow Wilson

105. “Genius is divine perseverance. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have.”

— Woodrow Wilson

106. “No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.”

— Woodrow Wilson

107. “The white men were roused by a mere instinct of self-preservation – until at last there had sprung into existence a great Ku Klux Klan, a veritable empire of the South, to protect the Southern country.”

— Woodrow Wilson

108. “Congress in session is Congress on public exhibition, whilst Congress in its committee-rooms is Congress at work.”

— Woodrow Wilson

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

— Woodrow Wilson

110. “The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.”

— Woodrow Wilson

111. “The highest and best form of efficiency is the spontaneous cooperation of a free people.”

— Woodrow Wilson

112. “People will endure their tyrants for years, but they tear their deliverers to pieces if a millennium is not created immediately.”

— Woodrow Wilson

113. “There is here a great melting pot in which we must compound a precious metal. That metal is the metal of nationality.”

— Woodrow Wilson

114. “Remember that God ordained that I should be the next president of the United States. Neither you nor any other mortal or mortals could have prevented this.”

— Woodrow Wilson

115. “No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.”

— Woodrow Wilson

116. “Thought cannot conceive of anything that may not be brought to expression. He who first uttered it may be only the suggester, but the doer will appear.”

— Woodrow Wilson

117. “One cool judgement is worth a thousand hasty councils.”

— Woodrow Wilson

118. “In public affairs, stupidity is more dangerous than knavery, because it is harder to fight.”

— Woodrow Wilson

119. “Today’s greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow.”

— Woodrow Wilson

120. “The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.”

— Woodrow Wilson

121. “Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.”

— Woodrow Wilson

122. “A man’s rootage is more important than his leafage.”

— Woodrow Wilson

123. “The only place in the world that nothing has to be explained to me is the South.”

— Woodrow Wilson

124. “A nation is as great, and only as great, as her rank and file.”

— Woodrow Wilson

125. “I am sorry for men who do not read the Bible every day. I wonder why they deprive themselves of the strength and pleasure.”

— Woodrow Wilson

126. “Some people have a large circle of friends while others have only friends that they like.”

— Woodrow Wilson

127. “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

128. “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.”

— Woodrow Wilson

129. “No nation is fit to sit in judgement upon any other nation.”

— Woodrow Wilson

130. “Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.”

— Woodrow Wilson

131. “When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.”

— Woodrow Wilson

132. “Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.”

— Woodrow Wilson

133. “America is the only idealistic nation in the world.”

— Woodrow Wilson

134. “Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence is a practical document for the use of practical men. It is not a thesis for philosophers, but a whip for tyrants; it is not a theory of government but a program of action.”

— Woodrow Wilson

135. “There is no cause half so sacred as the cause of the people. There is no idea so uplifting as the idea of the service of humanity.”

— Woodrow Wilson

136. “We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world.”

— Woodrow Wilson

137. “Liberty is its own reward.”

— Woodrow Wilson

138. “I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool, the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.”

— Woodrow Wilson

139. “I’m a vague, conjunctured personality, more made up of opinions and academic prepossessions than of human traits and red corpuscles.”

— Woodrow Wilson

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

— Woodrow Wilson

141. “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.”

— Woodrow Wilson

142. “Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.”

— Woodrow Wilson

143. “Death, like the quintessence of otherness, is for others.”

— Woodrow Wilson

144. “It is not an army that we must train for war; it is a nation.”

— Woodrow Wilson

145. “We ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialists – believers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic.”

— Woodrow Wilson

146. “Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.”

— Woodrow Wilson

147. “While we are fighting for freedom, we must see, among other things, that labor is free.”

— Woodrow Wilson

148. “We didn’t have another choice but to do what we did, if we wanted to be accepted, because we weren’t counted as human beings.”

— Woodrow Wilson

149. “The rule for every man is, not to depend on the education which other men have prepared for him-not even to consent to it; but to strive to see things as they are, and to be himself as he is. Defeat lies in self-surrender.”

— Woodrow Wilson

150. “It must be a peace without victory.”

— Woodrow Wilson