The presidential office is not a rosewater affair. This is an office in which a man must put on his war paint. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acquiescence. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
This was not after all a conventional war, a struggle between equally predacious powers; it was a war to end all wars. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
I am the friend of peace and mean to preserve it for America so long as I am able. . . .… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The Government of the United States would be constrained to hold the Imperial German government to a strict accountability for such acts… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Is there any man, is there any woman, let me say any child here that does not know that the seed of… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
...men are not put into this world to go the path of ease, they are put into this world to go the… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The Civil War created in this country what had never existed before - a national consciousness. It was not the salvation of… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
It has become a people's war, and peoples of all sorts and races, of every degree of power and variety of fortune,… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
I believe that soldiers will bear me out in saying that both come in time of battle. I take it that the… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Politics is a war of causes; a joust of principles. Government is too serious a matter to admit of meaningless courtesies. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
It was necessary to put the South at a moral disadvantage by transforming the contest from a war waged against states fighting… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Once lead this people into war, and they'll forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance. To fight, you must be… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
It must be a peace without victory...Victory would mean peace forced upon the loser, a victor's terms imposed upon the vanquished. It… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
I come from the South and I know what war is, for I have seen its terrible wreckage and ruin. It is… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
I came from the South and I know what war is, for I have seen its wreckage and terrible ruin. It is… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The great war that broke so suddenly upon the world two years ago, and which has swept up within its flame so… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars,… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Is there any man here or any woman, let me say is there any child here, who does not know that the… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fibre of national… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
War is only a sort of dramatic representation, a sort of dramatic symbol of a thousand forms of duty. I fancy that… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
...I do not want a government that will take care of me, I want a government that will make other men take… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
There is such a thing as man being too proud to fight. There is such a thing as a nation being so… — 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
