Top 350 Woodrow Wilson Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “We ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialists – believers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic.”

— Woodrow Wilson

152. “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

153. “Liberty is its own reward.”

— Woodrow Wilson

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

— Woodrow Wilson

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

— Woodrow Wilson

156. “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

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

— Woodrow Wilson

158. “That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.”

— Woodrow Wilson

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

— Woodrow Wilson

160. “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

161. “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

162. “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

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

— Woodrow Wilson

164. “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

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

— Woodrow Wilson

166. “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

167. “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

168. “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

169. “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

170. “There is no indispensable man. The government will not collapse and go to pieces if any one of the gentlemen who are seeking to be entrusted with its guidance should be left at home.”

— Woodrow Wilson

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

— Woodrow Wilson

172. “The seed of revolution is repression.”

— Woodrow Wilson

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

— Woodrow Wilson

174. “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

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

— Woodrow Wilson

176. “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

177. “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

178. “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

179. “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

180. “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

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

— Woodrow Wilson

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

— Woodrow Wilson

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

— Woodrow Wilson

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

— Woodrow Wilson

185. “You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape.”

— Woodrow Wilson

186. “Freedom exists only where the people take care of the government.”

— Woodrow Wilson

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

— Woodrow Wilson

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

— Woodrow Wilson

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

— Woodrow Wilson

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

— Woodrow Wilson

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

— Woodrow Wilson

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

— Woodrow Wilson

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

— Woodrow Wilson

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

— Woodrow Wilson

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

— Woodrow Wilson

196. “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

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

— Woodrow Wilson

198. “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

199. “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

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

— Woodrow Wilson