The greatest embarrassment of my political career has been that active duties seem to deprive me of time for careful investigation. I… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The law that will work is merely the summing up in legislative form of the moral judgment that the community has already… — 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
The natural man inevitably rebels against mathematics, a mild form of torture that could only be learned by painful processes of drill. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
No man ever saw the people of whom he forms a part. No man ever saw a government. I live in the… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
I am not one of those who believe that a great standing army is the means of maintaining peace, because if you… — 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
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