Woodrow Wilson Quotes

Never attempt to murder a man who is committing suicide.
Woodrow Wilson

Attempt, Committing

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.
Woodrow Wilson

Men, Country, Themselves

Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.
Woodrow Wilson

Political, Prosperity, Campaign

The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.
Woodrow Wilson

Revolution, American, Beginning

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

Peace, Political, Democracy

There are blessed intervals when I forget by one means or another that I am President of the United States.
Woodrow Wilson

Blessed, Forget, Another

What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.
Woodrow Wilson

Law, Opinion, Mankind

When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.
Woodrow Wilson

Him, Give, Whether

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

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

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

I have come slowly into possession of such powers as I have. I receive the opinions of my day. I do not conceive them. But I receive them into a vivid mind.
Woodrow Wilson

Mind, Opinions, Possession

My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business, that it is something we owe to each other to understand and discuss with absolute frankness.
Woodrow Wilson

Life, Politics, Business

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.
Woodrow Wilson

Future, Sea, Question

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.
Woodrow Wilson

Men, May, Looking

We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study.
Woodrow Wilson

Education, Great, Science

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: President

Born: December 28, 1856

Died: February 3, 1924

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