Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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201. “I am not one of those who believe that a great standing army is the means of maintaining peace, because if you build up a great profession those who form parts of it want to exercise their profession.”

— Woodrow Wilson

202. “We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.”

— Woodrow Wilson

203. “War is only a sort of dramatic representation, a sort of dramatic symbol of a thousand forms of duty. I fancy that it is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shooting at you.”

— Woodrow Wilson

204. “The presidential office is not a rosewater affair. This is an office in which a man must put on his war paint.”

— Woodrow Wilson

205. “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

206. “There will be no greater burden on our generation than to organize the forces of liberty in our time in order to make our quest ofa new freedom for America.”

— Woodrow Wilson

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

— Woodrow Wilson

208. “The flag is a flag of liberty of opinion as well as of political liberty.”

— Woodrow Wilson

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

— Woodrow Wilson

210. “The greatest and truest models for all oratorsis Demosthenes. One who has not studied deeply and constantly all the great speeches of the great Athenian, is not prepared to speak in public. Only as the constant companion of Demosthenes, Burke, Fox, Canning and Webster, can we hope to become orators.”

— Woodrow Wilson

211. “Responsibility is proportionate to opportunity.”

— Woodrow Wilson

212. “My best training came from my father.”

— Woodrow Wilson

213. “There is no more subtle dissolvent of morals than sentimentality.”

— Woodrow Wilson

214. “We are not put into this world to sit still and know; we are put into it to act.”

— Woodrow Wilson

215. “Only free peoples can hold their purpose and their honor steady to a common end, and prefer the interests of mankind to any narrow interest of their own.”

— Woodrow Wilson

216. “You have the greatest soul, the noblest nature, the sweetest, most loving heart I have ever known, and my love, my reverence, my admiration for you, you have increased in one evening as I should have thought only a lifetime of intimate, loving association could have increased them. You are more wonderful and lovely in my eyes than you ever were before; and my pride and joy and gratitude that you should love me with such a perfect love are beyond all expression, except in some great poem which I cannot write.”

— Woodrow Wilson

217. “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

218. “Only peace between equals can last.”

— Woodrow Wilson

219. “A fault which humbles a person is of more use to him or her than a good action which puffs him or her up.”

— Woodrow Wilson

220. “To conquer with arms is to make only a temporary conquest; to conquer the world by earning its esteem is to make a permanent conquest.”

— Woodrow Wilson

221. “Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse.”

— Woodrow Wilson

222. “Your enlightenment depends on the company you keep. You do not know the world until you know the men who have possessed it and tried its wares before you were ever given your brief run upon it.”

— Woodrow Wilson

223. “The growth of our nation and all its activities are in the hands of a few men.”

— Woodrow Wilson

224. “To be free is not necessarily to be wise. Wisdom comes with counsel, with the frank and free conference of untrammeled men united in the common interest.”

— Woodrow Wilson

225. “One cannot pay the price of self-respect.”

— Woodrow Wilson

226. “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

227. “War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.”

— Woodrow Wilson

228. “An evident principleis the principle of justice to all peoples and nationalities, and their right to live on equal terms of liberty and safety with one another, whether they be strong or weak.”

— Woodrow Wilson

229. “Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God.”

— Woodrow Wilson

230. “America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness which are derived from the revelations of the Holy Scripture.”

— Woodrow Wilson

231. “The immortality of Thomas Jefferson does not lie in any one of his achievements, or in the series of his achievements, but in his attitude towards mankind and the conception which he sought to realize in action of the service owed by America to the rest of the world... Thomas Jefferson was a great leader of men because he understood and interpreted the spirits of men.”

— Woodrow Wilson

232. “God knows that any man who would seek the presidency of the United States is a fool for his pains. The burden is all but intolerable, and the things that I have to do are just as much as the human spirit can carry.”

— Woodrow Wilson

233. “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.”

— Woodrow Wilson

234. “The light that shined upon the summit now seems almost to shine at our feet.”

— Woodrow Wilson

235. “Every people has a right to choose the sovereignty under which they shall live.”

— Woodrow Wilson

236. “If you would be a leader of men, you must lead your own generation, not the next.”

— Woodrow Wilson

237. “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

238. “Nothing was ever done so systematically as nothing is being done now.”

— Woodrow Wilson

239. “We are provincials no longer. The tragic events of the 30 months of vital turmoil through which we have just passed have made us citizens of the world. There can be no turning back.”

— Woodrow Wilson

240. “The nation’s honor is dearer than the nation’s comfort.”

— Woodrow Wilson

241. “The commands of democracy are as imperative as its privileges and opportunities are wide and generous. Its compulsion is upon us.”

— Woodrow Wilson

242. “Liberty does not consist in mere declarations of the rights of man. It consists in the translation of those declarations into definite action.”

— Woodrow Wilson

243. “Justice has nothing to do with expediency. Justice has nothing to do with any temporary standard whatever. It is rooted and grounded in the fundamental instincts of humanity.”

— Woodrow Wilson

244. “Tolerance is an admirable intellectual gift; but it is of little worth in politics.”

— Woodrow Wilson

245. “A living thing is born.”

— Woodrow Wilson

246. “The masters of the government of the United States are the combined capitalists and manufacturers of the United States.”

— Woodrow Wilson

247. “The question of armaments, whether on land or sea, is the most immediately and intensely practical question connected with the future fortunes of nations and of mankind.”

— Woodrow Wilson

248. “The world must be made safe for democracy.”

— Woodrow Wilson

249. “The Government of the United States would be constrained to hold the Imperial German government to a strict accountability for such acts of their naval authorities.”

— Woodrow Wilson

250. “No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acquiescence.”

— Woodrow Wilson