All the extraordinary men I have known were extraordinary in their own estimation. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
When they the American soldiers came, they found fit comrades for their courage and their devotion.... Joining hands with them, the men… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
We [Americans] have a great ardor for gain; but we have a deep passion for the rights of man. — 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
The ordinary literary man, even though he be an eminent historian, is ill-fitted to be a mentor in affairs of government. For...… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The treasury of America lies in those ambitions, those energies, that cannot be restricted to a special favored class. It depends upon… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
There has been something crude and heartless and unfeeling in our haste to suceed and be great. Our thought has been 'Let… — 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
...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 only thing that saves the world is the little handful of disinterested men that are in it. — 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
Conformity will be the only virtue and any man who refuses to conform will have to pay the penalty. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten… — 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 believe in human liberty as I believe in the wine of life. There is no salvation for men in the pitiful… — 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
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
I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of… — 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
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
The example of America must be the example not merely of peace because it will not fight, but of peace because peace… — 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
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