Quotes from Woodrow T. Wilson

Genius is divine perseverance. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have.

There is such a thing as a nation being so right that it it does not need to convince others by force that it is right

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 our dreams die, but others nourish and protect them, nurse them through bad days till they bring them to sunshine and light

We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.

I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately triumph than to triumph in a cause that will ultimately fail

There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.

The sum of the whole matter is this, that our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually

No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know

Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.