No peace can last, or ought to last, which does not recognize and accept the principle that governments derive all their just… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Only a peace between equals can last. Only a peace the very principle of which is equality and a common participation in… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
I am not one of those who have the least anxiety about the triumph of the principles I have stood for. I… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Our object now, as then, is to vindicate the principles of peace and justice in the life of the world as against… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Self-determination is not a mere phrase. It is an imperative principle of action, which statesmen will henceforth ignore at their peril. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Americanism consists in utterly believing in the principles of America. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
An evident principleis the principle of justice to all peoples and nationalities, and their right to live on equal terms of liberty… — 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
Politics is a war of causes; a joust of principles. Government is too serious a matter to admit of meaningless courtesies. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
You have just taken an oath of allegiance to the United States. Of allegiance to whom? Of allegiance to no one, unless… — 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
Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice. — 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