Woodrow Wilson Quotes

We will presently find that we are not so far apart after all, that the points on which we differ are few and the points on which we agree are many, and that if we only have the patience and the candor and the desire to get together, we will get together.

The immortality of Thomas Jefferson does not lie in any one of his achievements, or in the series of his achievements, but in his attitude towards mankind and the conception which he sought to realize in action of the service owed by America to the rest of the world...Thomas Jefferson was a great leader of men because he understood and interpreted the spirits of men.

You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.

I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being.

How is the schoolmaster, the nation, to know which boy needs the whipping?

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

A man's rootage is more important than his leafage.

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.

Nothing was ever done so systematically as nothing is being done now.

The way to stop financial "joy-riding" is to arrest the chauffeur not the automobile.

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. But we shall not be poor if we love liberty, because the nation that loves liberty truly sets every man free to do his best and be his best.

It would be the irony of fate if my administration had to deal chiefly with foreign affairs.