Woodrow Wilson Quotes

Every people has a right to choose the sovereignty under which they shall live.

We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.

All things come to him who waits - provided he knows what he is waiting for.

The truth is we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless.

The history of liberty is a history of resistance.

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

The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them.

If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.

We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.

When correcting a child, the goal is to apply light, not heat.

Progressiveness means not standing still when everything else is moving.

I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.

Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting.

We are not put into this world to sit still and know; we are put into it to act.

If you've made up your mind you can do something, you're absolutely RIGHT.

The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.

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

The difference between a strong man and a weak one is that the former does not give up after a defeat.

If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

I am sorry for men who do not read the Bible every day. I wonder why they deprive themselves of the strength and pleasure.

The sum of the whole matter is this - our civilization cannot survive materially unless it is redeemed spiritually.

The object of love is to serve, not to win

As a matter of fact and experience, the more power is divided the more irresponsible it becomes.

No man has ever risen to the stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.

The man who disparages music as a luxury and non-essential is doing the nation an injury. Music now, more than ever before, is a national need.

No man can worship God or love his neighbour on an empty stomach.

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

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

Character, my friends, is a byproduct. It is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.

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

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.