If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if an hour, I am ready now. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The literary gift is a very dangerous gift to possess if you are not telling the truth, and I would a great… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
America was born a Christian nation. America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness, which are derived from… — 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
If you've made up your mind you can do something, you're absolutely RIGHT. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
If young gentlemen get from their years in college only manliness, esprit de corps, a release of their social gifts, a training… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another, it is for the sovereignty… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
...it would be a mistake...to ascribe to Roman legal conceptions an undivided sway over the development of law and institutions during the… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
We are expected to put the utmost energy, of every power that we have, into the service of our fellow men, never… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
People will endure their tyrants for years, but they tear their deliverers to pieces if a millennium is not created immediately. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
If you would be a leader of men, you must lead your own generation, not the next. — 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 didn't have another choice but to do what we did, if we wanted to be accepted, because we weren't counted as… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
I have the feeling that he would rather see a good cause fail than succeed if he were not the head of… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The world can be at peace only if the world is stable, and there can be no stability where the will is… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
If you lose your wealth, you have lost nothing; if you lose your health, you have lost something; but if you lose… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is privately concentrated. The growth of the… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
There is something better, if possible, that a man can give than his life. That is his living spirit to a service… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
If you wish your children to be Christians you must really take the trouble to be Christian yourselves. Those are the only… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Let him [the President] once win the admiration and confidence of the country, and no other single force can withstand him, no… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
My urgent advice to you would be, not only always to think first of America, but always, also, to think first of… — 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
Be militant! Be an organization that is going to do things! If you can find older men who will give you countenance… — 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
If you would be a leader of men you must lead your own generation, not the next. Your playing must be good… — 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