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 government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests.… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous,… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little. .… — 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
Government ought to be all outside and no inside. . . . Everybody knows that corruption thrives in secret places, and avoids… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The profession I chose was politics; the profession I entered was law. I entered the one because I thought it would lead… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business, that it is something we owe to… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The success of a party means little except when the nation is using that party for a large and definite purpose. No… — 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
