Woodrow Wilson Quotes

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

“There is one thing that the American people always rise to and extend their hand to and that is the truth of justice, and of liberty, and of peace. We have accepted that truth and we are going to led by itand through us the world, out into pastures of quietness and peace such as the world never dreamed of before.”

“I am so glad that I am young, so that I may give my youth to you.”

“Politics is a war of causes; a joust of principles.”

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

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

“It is easier to move a cemetery than to change a curriculum.”

“One cannot pay the price of self-respect.”

“It must be a peace without victory”

“I want the people to love me, but I suppose they never will.”

“The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort.”

“Any man that resists the present tides that run in the world, will find himself thrown upon a shore so high and barren that it will seem he has been separated from his human kind forever.”

“The example of America must be the example not merely of peace because it will not fight, but of peace because peace is the healing and elevating influence of the world, and strife is not. There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight. There is such a thing as a nation being so right that it does not need to convince others by force that it is right.”

“We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class, of necessity, in every society, to forego the privileges of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks.”

“I am a most unhappy man. I accidentally ruined my country. A great industrial nation is now controlled by its system of credit. Our government is no longer based on the freedom of opinion, nor on the conviction and the majority decision, it is now a government which is subjected to the conviction and the compulsion of a small group of dominant men.”

“It is a protest against the way the world has worked. (explanation of Bolshevism)”

“No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acquiescence.”

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

“If the colored people made a mistake in voting for me, they ought to correct it.”

“The literary gift is a very dangerous gift to possess if you are not telling the truth, and I would a great deal rather, for my part, have a man stumble in his speech than to feel he was so exceedingly smooth that he had better be watched both day and night.”

“It is not an army that we must train for war; it is a nation.”

“Settlements may be temporary, but the action of the nations in the interest of peace and justice must be permanent. We can set up permanent processes. We may not be able to set up permanent decisions.”

“The Government of the United States would be constrained to hold the Imperial German government to a strict accountability for such acts of their naval authorities.”

“Politics is a war of causes; a joust of principles. Government is too serious a matter to admit of meaningless courtesies.”

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