Quotes By Woodrow Wilson

A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.

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

Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

The history of liberty is a history of resistance.

I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.

So far as the colleges go, the sideshows are swallowing up the circus.

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

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.

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

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

My own ideals for the university are those of a genuine democracy and serious scholarship. These two, indeed, seem to go together.

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.

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.

Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

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.

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.

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

The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.

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