The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Conservatism is the policy of make no change and consult your grandmother when in doubt. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The flag is a flag of liberty of opinion as well as of political liberty. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
His [the President's] office is anything he has the sagacity and force to make it. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The Civil War created in this country what had never existed before - a national consciousness. It was not the salvation of… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The law that will work is merely the summing up in legislative form of the moral judgment that the community has already… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The method of political science is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
It was necessary to put the South at a moral disadvantage by transforming the contest from a war waged against states fighting for their indepdence into a war waged against states fighting for the maintenance and extension of slavery...and the world, it might be hoped, would see it as a moral war, not a political; and the sympathy of nations… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share
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
The greatest embarrassment of my political career has been that active duties seem to deprive me of time for careful investigation. I… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
From the dim morning hours of history when the father was king and priest down to this modern time of history's high… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty. We have… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Living political constitutions must be Darwinian in structure and in practice. Society is a living organism and must obey the laws of… — 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