Woodrow Wilson Quotes

“Tolerance is an admirable intellectual gift; but it is of little worth in politics.”

“Tell me what is right and I will fight for it.”

“I am one who fights without a knack of hoping confidentlysimply a Scotch-Irishman who will not be conquered.”

“Wilson was once asked how long it took him to write a speech. He answered, 'That depends. If I am to speak 10 minutes, I need a week for preparation. If 15 minutes, 3 days. If half hour, two days. If an hour, I am ready now.'”

“We want the spirit of America to be efficient; we want American character to be efficient; we want American character to display itself in what I may, perhaps, be allowed to call spiritual efficiency - clear disinterested thinking and fearless action”

“...men are not put into this world to go the path of ease, they are put into this world to go the path of pain and struggle.”

“An evident principleis the principle of justice to all peoples and nationalities, and their right to live on equal terms of liberty and safety with one another, whether they be strong or weak.”

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

“Sciencehas won for us a great liberty in the physical world, a liberty from superstitious fear and from disease, a freedom touse nature as a familiar servant; but it has not freed us from ourselves.”

“There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.”

“The masters of the government of the United States are the combined capitalists and manufacturers of the United States.”

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

“Property as compared with humanity, as compared with the red blood in the American people, must take second place, not first place.”

“A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.”

“Movies are like writing history with lightning.”

“Today's greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow.”

“My best training came from my father.”

“The presidential office is not a rosewater affair. This is an office in which a man must put on his war paint.”

“His [the President's] office is anything he has the sagacity and force to make it.”

“People will endure their tyrants for years, but they tear their deliverers to pieces if a millennium is not created immediately.”

“We never found a real model (for our vision).”

“The greatest and truest models for all oratorsis Demosthenes. One who has not studied deeply and constantly all the great speeches of the great Athenian, is not prepared to speak in public. Only as the constant companion of Demosthenes, Burke, Fox, Canning and Webster, can we hope to become orators.”

“We grow by our dreams.”

“It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilizationitself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things we have always carried closest to our hearts.”

“Whatever may be said against the chewing of tobacco, this at least can be said of it, that it gives a man time to think between sentences.”