Woodrow Wilson

“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.”

“You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“If it is a ten-minute speech it takes me all of two weeks to prepare it; if it is a half-hour speech it takes me a week; if I can talk as long as I want to it requires no preparation at all. I am ready now.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“The history of liberty is a history of resistance.”

“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.”

“It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.”

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

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

“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.”

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