Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The commands of democracy are as imperative as its privileges and opportunities are wide and generous. Its compulsion is upon us. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
My own ideals for the university are those of a genuine democracy and serious scholarship. These two, indeed, seem to go together. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The whole purpose of democracy is that we may hold counsel with one another, so as not to depend upon the understanding… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
What is the use of voting? We know that the machines of both parties are subsidized by the same persons, and therefore… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Big business is not dangerous because it is big, but because its bigness is an unwholesome inflation created by privileges and exemptions… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests.… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty. We have… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The beauty of a democracy is that you never can tell when a youngster is born what he is going to do… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Today, supremely, it behooves us to remember that a nation shall be saved by the power that sleeps in its own bosom;… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
In fundamental theory socialism and democracy are almost if not quite one and the same. They both rest at bottom upon the… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
...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 Image
The facts of the case will always have the better of [an] argument. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
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 Image
Some Americans need hyphens in their names because only part of them has come over. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
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 Image