Is there any man here or any woman, let me say is there any child here, who does not know that the… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
[We are] no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but… — 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
Has justice ever grown in the soil of absolute power? Has not justice always come from the ... heart and spirit of… — 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
Some Americans need hyphens in their names, because only part of them has come over; but when the whole man has come… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The man who reads everything is like the man who eats everything: he can digest nothing, and the penalty of crowding one's… — 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
We forget that there is much more patriotism in having the audacity to differ from the majority than in running before the… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells, and when I give a man an office, I watch him… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
I have had the accomplishment of something like this at heart ever since I was a boy… So I feel tonight like… — 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
...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
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
I am all kinds of a democrat, so far as I can discover but the root of the whole business is this,… — 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
Generally young men are regarded as radicals. This is a popular misconception. The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates.… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Your enlightenment depends on the company you keep. You do not know the world until you know the men who have possessed… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
There is such a thing as man being too proud to fight. There is such a thing as a nation being so… — 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
...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
The men who act stand nearer to the mass of man than the men who write; and it is in their hands… — 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
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
It is the object of learning, not only to satisfy the curiosity and perfect the spirits of ordinary men, but also to… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
And when they [American soldiers] came, they found fit comrades for their courage and their devotion. ... Joining hands with these, the… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The presidential office is not a rosewater affair. This is an office in which a man must put on his war paint. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
All the extraordinary men I have known were extraordinary in their own estimation. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
God knows that any man who would seek the presidency of the United States is a fool for his pains. The burden… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
If I cannot retain my moral influence over a man except by occasionally knocking him down, if that is the only basis… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. Character is… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Princeton is no longer a thing for Princeton men to please themselves with. Princeton is a thing with which Princeton men must… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
When you come into the presence of a leader of men, you know that you have come into the presence of fire… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Bagehot did what so many thousand of young graduates before him had done,--he studied for the bar; and then, having prepared himself… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty councils. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat. Ay any… — 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 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