Quotes from Woodrow Wilson

We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.

I not only use all the brains I have but all I can borrow.

America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal - to discover and maintain liberty among men.

As compared with the college politician, the real article seems like an amateur.

America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.

There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.

I'm a vague conjunctured personality more made up of opinions and academic prepossessions than of human traits and red corpuscles.

The question of armaments, whether on land or sea, is the most immediately and intensely practical question connected with the future fortunes of nations and of mankind.

A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.

The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.

Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.

Princeton is no longer a thing for Princeton men to please themselves with. Princeton is a thing with which Princeton men must satisfy the country.

Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.

At every crisis in one's life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving.

It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.

The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.

The world is not looking for servants, there are plenty of these, but for masters, men who form their purposes and then carry them out, let the consequences be what they may.

The history of liberty is a history of resistance.

There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with.

I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.

By 'radical,' I understand one who goes too far; by 'conservative', one who does not go far enough; by 'reactionary', one who won't go at all.

Neutrality is a negative word. It does not express what America ought to feel. We are not trying to keep out of trouble; we are trying to preserve the foundations on which peace may be rebuilt.

Property as compared with humanity, as compared with the red blood in the American people, must take second place, not first place.

Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.