The history of liberty is the history of limitations on the power of government, not the increase of it. When we resist,… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
There is no indispensable man. The government will not collapse and go to pieces if any one of the gentlemen who are… — 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
In public affairs, stupidity is more dangerous than knavery, because it is harder to fight. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The allied nations with the fullest concurrence of our government and people are agreed that in Palestine shall be laid the foundations… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
No government has ever been beneficent when the attitude of government was that it was taking care of the people. The only… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
No peace can last, or ought to last, which does not recognize and accept the principle that governments derive all their just… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
We ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialists--believers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Jefferson's Declaration of Independence is a practical document for the use of practical men. It is not a thesis for philosophers, but… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of government is… — 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
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
Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The trouble with the theory [of limited and divided government] is that government is not a machine, but a living thing. This… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
“How is the schoolmaster, the nation, to know which boy needs the whipping?” — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The masters of the government of the United States are the combined capitalists and manufacturers of the United States. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The ordinary literary man, even though he be an eminent historian, is ill-fitted to be a mentor in affairs of government. For...… — 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
Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of liberty is… — 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
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