When I think of the flag.... I see alternate strips of parchment upon which are written the rights of liberty and justice,… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Neutrality is a negative word. It does not express what America ought to feel. We are not trying to keep out of… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Neutrality is a negative word. It is a word that does not express what America ought to feel. America has a heart,… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
A presidential campaign may easily degenerate into a mere personal contest, and so lose its real dignity. There is no indispensable man. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
They do not need our praise. They do not need that our admiration should sustain them. There is no immortality that is… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The world is not looking for servants, there are plenty of these, but for masters, men who form their purposes and then… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Settlements may be temporary, but the action of the nations in the interest of peace and justice must be permanent. We can… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
I want to re-echo my hope that we may all work together for a great peace as distinguished from a mean peace. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The competent leader of men cares little for the niceties of other peoples' characters: he cares much--everything--for the exterior uses to which… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Great statesmen seem to direct and rule by a sort of power to put themselves in the place of the nation over… — 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
May it not suffice for me to say ... that of course like every other man of intelligence and education I do… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Whatever may be said against the chewing of tobacco, this at least can be said of it, that it gives a man… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
My hope is ... that we may recover ... something of a renewal of that vision of the law with which men… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Thought cannot conceive of anything that may not be brought to expression. He who first uttered it may be only the suggester,… — 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
Since trade ignores national boundaries and the manufacturer insists on having the world as a market, the flag of his nation must… — 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