I am a most unhappy man. I accidentally ruined my country. A great industrial nation is now controlled by its system of… — 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
Let it be your pride to show all men everywhere not only what good soldiers you are, but also what good men… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
No man ever saw a government. I live in the midst of the Government of the United States, but I never saw… — 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
America is not a mere body of traders; it is a body of free men. Our greatness is built upon our freedom… — 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
The Bible is the one supreme source of revelation of the meaning of life, the nature of God and spiritual nature and… — 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
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
The spirit of [William] Penn will not be stayed. You cannot set limits to such knightly adventurers. After their own day is… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
If you would be a leader of men you must lead your own generation, not the next. Your playing must be good… — 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
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
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
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
Man is much more than a 'rational being' and lives more by sympathies and impressions than by conclusions. It darkens his eyes… — 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
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
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
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
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