What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Only free peoples can hold their purpose and their honor steady to a common end, and prefer the interests of mankind to… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The question of armaments, whether on land or sea, is the most immediately and intensely practical question connected with the future fortunes… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
We are participants, whether we would or not, in the life of the world.... We are partners with the rest. What affects… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
There are times when words seem empty and only actions seem great. Such a time has come, and in the Providence of… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
No people are true Christians who do not think constantly of how they can lift their brother and sister, how they can… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Your real statesman is first of all, and chief of all, a great human being, with an eye for all the great… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The Americans who went to Europe to die are a unique breed.... (They) crossed the seas to a foreign land to fight… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The only way your powers can become great is by exerting them outside the circle of your own narrow, special, selfish interests.… — 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
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