“You know how impossible it is, in short, to have a free nation if it is a military nation and under military orders” — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
“if Germany won it would change the course of our civilization and make the United States a military nation [and] it would check his policy for a better international ethical code” — 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