America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal - to discover and maintain liberty… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
No man has ever risen to the stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The difference between a strong man and a weak one is that the former does not give up after a defeat. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Any man that resists the present tides that run in the world, will find himself thrown upon a shore so high and… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
I have sometimes heard men say politics must have nothing to do with business, and I have often wished that business had… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
A man has deprived himself of the best there is in the world who has deprived himself of this. — 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
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
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 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
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 natural man inevitably rebels against mathematics, a mild form of torture that could only be learned by painful processes of drill. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
All the extraordinary men I have ever known were chiefly extraordinary in their own estimation. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
There was a time when corporations played a minor part in our business affairs, but now they play the chief part, and… — 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
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
Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
It is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shouting at you. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
What every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence. — 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 sorry for men who do not read the Bible every day. I wonder why they deprive themselves of the strength… — 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
