Quotes from Woodrow Wilson

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.

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.

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

The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.

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

Never attempt to murder a man who is committing suicide.

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

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.

America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses.

Nothing was ever done so systematically as nothing is being done now.

If you want to make enemies try to change something.

To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.

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.

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

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.

Friendship Quote of the Week:"Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together"…Woodrow Wilson, U.S. President and World Leader

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

Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.

What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.

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

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 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.

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

If you think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself.

No nation is fit to set in judgment upon any other nation