Quotes from Woodrow Wilson

Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.

I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.

The flag of the United States has not been created by rhetorical sentences in declarations of independence and in bills of rights. It has been created by the experience of a great people, and nothing is written upon it that has not been written by their life. It is the embodiment, not of a sentiment, but of a history.

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.

Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.

There are blessed intervals when I forget by one means or another that I am President of the United States.

The world must be made safe for democracy.

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

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.

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.

I will not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with respect of the past.

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.

Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance.

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.

The history of liberty is a history of resistance.

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.

The day has come when America is privileged to spend her blood and her might for the principles that gave her birth and happiness and the peace which she has treasured.

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.

You deal in the raw material of opinion, and, if my convictions have any validity, opinion ultimately governs the world.

The commands of democracy are as imperative as its privileges and opportunities are wide and generous. Its compulsion is upon us.

It was a very lonely spirit that looked out from underneath those shaggy brows and comprehended men without fully communing with them, as if in spite of all its genial efforts at comradeship, it dwelt apart, saw its visions of duty where no man looked on.

It must be a peace without victory…. Only a peace between equals can last.

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