All the extraordinary men I have ever known were chiefly extraordinary in their own estimation. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The growth of our nation and all its activities are in the hands of a few men. — 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
We [Americans] have a great ardor for gain; but we have a deep passion for the rights of man. — 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
A man has deprived himself of the best there is in the world who has (been) deprived of (the Bible). — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Scholarship cannot do without literature… It needs literature to float it, to set it current, to authenticate it to all the race,… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The white men were roused by a mere instinct of self-preservation—until at last there had sprung into existence a great Ku Klux… — 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
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
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
...men are not put into this world to go the path of ease, they are put into this world to go the… — 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
Surely a man has come to himself only when he has found the best that is in him, and has satisfied his… — 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
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
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
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
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
Once lead this people into war, and they'll forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance. To fight, you must be… — 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
There is a very holy and a very terrible isolation for the conscience of every man who seeks to read the destiny… — 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
A man has deprived himself of the best there is in the world who has deprived himself of this. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
If you would be a leader of men, you must lead your own generation, not the next. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
It does not become America that within her borders, where every man is free to follow the dictates of his conscience, men… — 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
I have received delegations of working men who, apparently speaking with the utmost sincerity, have declared that they would regard it as… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
There is no indispensable man. The government will not collapse and go to pieces if any one of the gentlemen who are… — 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
The man who disparages music as a luxury and non-essential is doing the nation an injury. Music now, more than ever before,… — 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
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
I confess my belief in the common man… The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it… The… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Is there any man, is there any woman, let me say any child here that does not know that the seed of… — 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
I have received delegations of working men who come, apparently speaking of the utmost sincerity, have declared that they would regard it… — 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
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
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
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
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
Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share
...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
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
Some Americans need hyphens in their names because only part of them has come over. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share
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
When I think of the flag… I see alternate strips of parchment upon which are written the rights of liberty and justice, and stripes… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share
If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if an hour, I am ready now. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share