Woodrow Wilson Quotes

“The great monopoly in this country is the money monopoly. So long as it exists, our old variety of freedom and individual energy of development are out of the question.”

“We cannot be separated in interest or divided in purpose. We stand together until the end.”

“Great statesmen seem to direct and rule by a sort of power to put themselves in the place of the nation over which they are set, and may thus be said to possess the souls of poets at the same time they display the coarser sense and the more vulgar sagacity of practical men of business.”

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

“There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.”

“We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world.”

“Justice has nothing to do with expediency. Justice has nothing to do with any temporary standard whatever. It is rooted and grounded in the fundamental instincts of humanity.”

“Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.”

“I would not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with great respect of the past.”

“There is here a great melting pot in which we must compound a precious metal. That metal is the metal of nationality.”

“We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true.”

“Let it be your pride to show all men everywhere not only what good soldiers you are, but also what good men you are.”

“But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts”

“Some of the greatest and most lasting effects of genuine oratory have gone forth from secluded lecture desks into the hearts of quiet groups of students.”

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

“I believe that soldiers will bear me out in saying that both come in time of battle. I take it that the moral courage comes in going into the battle, and the physical courage in staying in.”

“I have no happy fairyland vision that she can win.”

“Only free peoples can hold their purpose and their honor steady to a common end, and prefer the interests of mankind to any narrow interest of their own.”

“I can imagine no greater disservice to the country than to establish a system of censorship that would deny to the people of a free republic like our own their indisputable right to criticize their own public officials. While exercising the great powers of the office I hold, I would regret in a crisis like the one through which we are now passing to lose the benefit of patriotic and intelligent criticism.”

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

“It has become a people's war, and peoples of all sorts and races, of every degree of power and variety of fortune, are involved inits sweeping processes of change and settlement.”

“Conservatism is the policy of make no change and consult your grandmother when in doubt.”

“I have had the accomplishment of something like this at heart ever since I was a boy.... So I feel tonight like the man who is lodging happily in the inn which lies half way along the journey and that in time, with a fresh impulse, we shall go the rest of the journey and sleep at the journey's end like men with a quiet conscience.”

“The law that will work is merely the summing up in legislative form of the moral judgment that the community has already reached.”

“There is no more subtle dissolvent of morals than sentimentality.”