It is not men that interest or disturb me primarily; it is ideas. Ideas live; men die. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
We are not put into this world to sit still and know; we are put into it to act. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
We should not only master questions, but also act upon them, and act definitely. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The only place in the world that nothing has to be explained to me is the South. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
It is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shouting at you. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Every country is renewed out of the unknown ranks and not out of the ranks of those already famous and powerful and… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
I had rather be defeated in a cause that will ultimately triumph than triumph in a cause that will ultimately be defeated. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The profession I chose was politics; the profession I entered was law. I entered the one because I thought it would lead… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The highest and best form of efficiency is the spontaneous cooperation of a free people. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
We cannot be separated in interest or divided in purpose. We stand together until the end. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Government is merely an attempt to express the conscience of everybody, the average conscience of the nation, in the rules that everybody… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Opinion is the great, indeed the only coordinating force in our system. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Nothing was ever done so systematically as nothing is being done now. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The princes among us are those who forget themselves and serve others. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if fifteen minutes, three days; if half an hour, two days;… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share
There is here a great melting pot in which we must compound a precious metal. That metal is the metal of nationality. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share
I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share
I have received delegations of working men who, apparently speaking with the utmost sincerity, have declared that they would regard it as a genuine… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share
Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share
...We are intensely proud of their noble record and are glad to have had the whole world see how irresistible they are in their… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share
The greatest embarrassment of my political career has been that active duties seem to deprive me of time for careful investigation. I seem almost… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share
Some Americans need hyphens in their names because only part of them has come over. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share
The history of liberty is the history of limitations on the power of government, not the increase of it. When we resist, therefore, the… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share
When I think of the flag… I see alternate strips of parchment upon which are written the rights of liberty and justice, and stripes… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share
If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if an hour, I am ready now. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share
