Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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151. “That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.”

— Woodrow Wilson

152. “Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse. Untrammeled reasoning is the indulgence of the philosopher, of the dreamer of sweet dreams.”

— Woodrow Wilson

153. “It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.”

— Woodrow Wilson

154. “Some Americans need hyphens in their names because only part of them has come over.”

— Woodrow Wilson

155. “Property as compared with humanity, as compared with the red blood in the American people, must take second place, not first place.”

— Woodrow Wilson

156. “There is something better, if possible, that a man can give than his life. That is his living spirit to a service that is not easy, to resist counsels that are hard to resist, to stand against purposes that are difficult to stand against.”

— Woodrow Wilson

157. “There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.”

— Woodrow Wilson

158. “But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts.”

— Woodrow Wilson

159. “I can predict with absolute certainty that within another generation there will be another world war if the nations of the world do not concert the method by which to prevent it.”

— Woodrow Wilson

160. “We can have no sympathy with those who seek the power of government to advance their own personal interests or ambitions.”

— Woodrow Wilson

161. “Have you thought of the sufferings of Armenia? You poured out your money to help succor the Armenians after they suffered; now set your strength so that they shall never suffer again.”

— Woodrow Wilson

162. “I used to be a lawyer, but now I am a reformed character.”

— Woodrow Wilson

163. “The wisest thing to do with a fool is to encourage him to hire a hall and discourse to his fellow-citizens. Nothing chills nonsense like exposure to the air.”

— Woodrow Wilson

164. “Some Americans need hyphens in their names, because only part of them has come over; but when the whole man has come over, heart and thought and all, the hyphen drops of its own weight out of his name.”

— Woodrow Wilson

165. “There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight.”

— Woodrow Wilson

166. “The cure for bad politics is the same as the cure for tuberculosis. It is living in the open.”

— Woodrow Wilson

167. “The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous, event of our generation.”

— Woodrow Wilson

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

— Woodrow Wilson

169. “The seed of revolution is repression.”

— Woodrow Wilson

170. “Government is not a warfare of interests.”

— Woodrow Wilson

171. “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.”

— Woodrow Wilson

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

— Woodrow Wilson

173. “A man who thinks of himself as belonging to a particular national group in America has not yet become an American. And the man who goes among you to trade upon your nationality is no worthy son to live under the Stars and Stripes.”

— Woodrow Wilson

174. “Politics is a war of causes; a joust of principles.”

— Woodrow Wilson

175. “All the extraordinary men I have known were extraordinary in their own estimation.”

— Woodrow Wilson

176. “The firm basis of government is justice, not pity.”

— Woodrow Wilson

177. “Where the great force lies, there must be the sanction of peace.”

— Woodrow Wilson

178. “If Freud had worn a kilt in the prescribed Highland manner he might have had a very different attitude to genitals.”

— Woodrow Wilson

179. “A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what we have been about.”

— Woodrow Wilson

180. “The roll of honor consists of the names of meant who have squared their conduct by ideals of duty.”

— Woodrow Wilson

181. “I am not one of those who have the least anxiety about the triumph of the principles I have stood for. I have seen fools resist Providence before, and I have seen their destruction, as will come upon these again, utter destruction and contempt. That we shall prevail is as sure as that God reigns.”

— Woodrow Wilson

182. “America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.”

— Woodrow Wilson

183. “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

184. “There was a time when corporations played a minor part in our business affairs, but now they play the chief part, and most men are the servants of corporations.”

— Woodrow Wilson

185. “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.”

— Woodrow Wilson

186. “The history of liberty is the history of limitations on the power of government, not the increase of it. When we resist, therefore, the concentration of power, we are resisting the processes of death, because concentration of power is what always precedes the destruction of human liberties.”

— Woodrow Wilson

187. “We shall not, I believe, be obliged to alter our policy of watchful waiting.”

— Woodrow Wilson

188. “Segregation is not humiliating but a benefit.”

— Woodrow Wilson

189. “It’s harder for a leader to be born in a palace than to be born in a cabin.”

— Woodrow Wilson

190. “No people are true Christians who do not think constantly of how they can lift their brother and sister, how they can assist their friends, how they can enlighten mankind, how they can make virtue the rule of conduct in the circle in which they live.”

— Woodrow Wilson

191. “When correcting a child, the goal is to apply light, not heat.”

— Woodrow Wilson

192. “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 dominion. We seek no indemnities for ourselves, no material compensation for the sacrifices we shall freely make.”

— Woodrow Wilson

193. “Is there any man, is there any woman, let me say any child here that does not know that the seed of war in the modern world is industrial and commercial rivalry?”

— Woodrow Wilson

194. “Politics is a war of causes; a joust of principles. Government is too serious a matter to admit of meaningless courtesies.”

— Woodrow Wilson

195. “If the colored people made a mistake in voting for me, they ought to correct it.”

— Woodrow Wilson

196. “I am sorry for those that disagree with me because I know that they are wrong.”

— Woodrow Wilson

197. “The shadows that now lie dark upon our path will soon be dispelled and we shall walk with the light all about us if we but be true to ourselves.”

— Woodrow Wilson

198. “Some of us let our dreams die, but others nourish and protect them, nurse them through bad days ’till they bring them to sunshine and light.”

— Woodrow Wilson

199. “The princes among us are those who forget themselves and serve others.”

— Woodrow Wilson

200. “The man who has no vision will undertake no great enterprise.”

— Woodrow Wilson