Woodrow Wilson Quotes

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

Work, Religion, Good

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

America, Consists

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

History, Strength, Against

Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
Woodrow Wilson

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

Sports, Game, Control

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.
Woodrow Wilson

Peace, May, Trying

Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
Woodrow Wilson

Leadership, Great, Successful

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.
Woodrow Wilson

Understand, Enough, Far

I am not sure that it is of the first importance that you should be happy. Many an unhappy man has been of deep service to himself and to the world.
Woodrow Wilson

Happy, Deep, Service

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.
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Politics, Society, Science

America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses.
Woodrow Wilson

Work, Heart, Find

That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
Woodrow Wilson

May, Become, Democratic

Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
Woodrow Wilson

Government, Democracy, Principles

Every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells, and when I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is growing or swelling.
Woodrow Wilson

Him, Give, Whether

I will not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with respect of the past.
Woodrow Wilson

Respect, Past, Speak

If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it.
Woodrow Wilson

Men, Government, Country

Interest does not tie nations together; it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.
Woodrow Wilson

Sympathy, Together, Sometimes

One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
Woodrow Wilson

Cool, Light, Worth

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

Humanity, Place, American

Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.
Woodrow Wilson

America, Sometimes, American

The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous, event of our generation.
Woodrow Wilson

Government, Free, Generation

There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.
Woodrow Wilson

Great, History, Bitter

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

Real, College, Seems

Generally young men are regarded as radicals. This is a popular misconception. The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life.
Woodrow Wilson

Life, Men, Past

He is not a true man of the world who knows only the present fashions of it.
Woodrow Wilson

True, Knows, Present

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: President

Born: December 28, 1856

Died: February 3, 1924

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