There’s something about a quotes compilation that just makes you want to keep reading. No matter how dull the person’s life may seem, when it’s all put together in a book (or, more likely these days, an ebook), it becomes a page-turner. You can’t help but be curious about what will happen next in the subject’s life. That is certainly the case with Woodrow Wilson, the 28th President of the United States. Wilson’s Early Years showcases his rise from relative obscurity to one of the most well-known and respected politicians in America. In fact, many historians consider him to be one of our country’s best leaders.
Discover the most known Free, Peace, Liberty, Love, Life, World, Nation, Justice, America quotes from Woodrow Wilson, and much more.
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. — Woodrow Wilson
Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life. — Woodrow Wilson
Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the distemper’s that make an ordered life impossible. — Woodrow Wilson
I have found one can never get anything in life that is worth while without fighting for it. — Woodrow Wilson
A sure sign of an amateur is too much detail to compensate for too little life. — Woodrow Wilson
At every crisis in one’s life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving. — Woodrow Wilson
There is nothing that succeeds in life like boldness, provided you believe you are on the right side. — Woodrow Wilson
Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting. — Woodrow Wilson
To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fibre of national life. — Woodrow Wilson
We are participants, whether we would or not, in the life of the world…. We are partners with the rest. What affects mankind isinevitably our affair as well as the nations of Europe and Asia. — Woodrow Wilson
The method of political science is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions. — Woodrow Wilson
We are in the presence of a new organization of society. Our life has broken away from the past. — Woodrow Wilson
Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God. — Woodrow Wilson
The things that the flag stands for were created by the experiences of a great people. Everything that it stands for was written by their lives. The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history. — Woodrow Wilson
I believe in human liberty as I believe in the wine of life. There is no salvation for men in the pitiful condescension of industrial masters. Guardians have no place in a land of freemen. — Woodrow Wilson
WOODROW WILSON QUOTES ON LIBERTY
Liberty is its own reward. — Woodrow Wilson
The history of liberty is a history of resistance. — Woodrow Wilson
What were Woodrow Wilson’s accomplishments?
Woodrow Wilson created the League of Nations after World War I .
He presided over ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, giving women the right to vote, and laws that prohibited child labour and that mandated an eight-hour workday for railroad workers.
Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. — Woodrow Wilson
The flag is a flag of liberty of opinion as well as of political liberty. — Woodrow Wilson
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. — Woodrow Wilson
Liberty does not consist in mere declarations of the rights of man. It consists in the translation of those declarations into definite action. — Woodrow Wilson
You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it. — Woodrow Wilson
WOODROW WILSON QUOTES ABOUT THE WORLD
The only place in the world that nothing has to be explained to me is the South. — Woodrow Wilson
You are here to enrich the world and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand. — Woodrow Wilson
A man has deprived himself of the best there is in the world who has deprived himself of this. — Woodrow Wilson
We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this. — Woodrow Wilson
The world must be made safe for democracy. — Woodrow Wilson
The world has a habit of going on. — Woodrow Wilson
This little world, this little state, this little commonwealth of our own. — Woodrow Wilson
He is not a true man of the world who knows only the present fashions of it. — Woodrow Wilson
We are not put into this world to sit still and know; we are put into it to act. — Woodrow Wilson
We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world. — Woodrow Wilson
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. — Woodrow Wilson
I am not sure that it is of the first importance that you should be happy. Many an unhappy man has been of deep service to himself and to the world. — Woodrow Wilson
I firmly believe in Divine Providence. Without belief in Providence I think I should go crazy. Without God the world would be a maze without a clue. — Woodrow Wilson
To conquer with arms is to make only a temporary conquest; to conquer the world by earning its esteem is to make a permanent conquest. — Woodrow Wilson
The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty. — Woodrow Wilson
The only thing that saves the world is the little handful of disinterested men that are in it. — Woodrow Wilson
We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world. — Woodrow Wilson
It is a protest against the way the world has worked. (explanation of Bolshevism) — Woodrow Wilson
Is there any man here or any woman, let me say is there any child here, who does not know that the seed of war in the modern world is industrial and commercial rivalry? — Woodrow Wilson
Freindship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together. — Woodrow Wilson
No task, rightly done, is truly private. It is part of the world s work. — Woodrow Wilson
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. — Woodrow Wilson
WOODROW WILSON QUOTES ON FREE
No man can be just who is not free. — Woodrow Wilson
The highest and best form of efficiency is the spontaneous cooperation of a free people. — Woodrow Wilson
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. — Woodrow Wilson
While we are fighting for freedom, we must see, among other things, that labor is free. — Woodrow Wilson
I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty. — Woodrow Wilson
When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare. — Woodrow Wilson
We are] no longer a Government by free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men. — Woodrow Wilson
Why was Woodrow Wilson so influential?
Although his historical reputation suffered in his final years because of Republican political gains, during World War II Woodrow Wilson’s reputation soared.
He was considered a wrongly unheeded prophet whose policies would have prevented world calamity.
Nevertheless, the creation of the United Nations and collective security pacts are viewed as fulfillment of his internationalist vision. . Source
To be free is not necessarily to be wise. Wisdom comes with counsel, with the frank and free conference of untrammeled men united in the common interest. — Woodrow Wilson
I do not want to live under a philanthropy. I do not want to be taken care of by the government…. We do not want a benevolent government. We want a free and a just government. — Woodrow Wilson
The right is more precious than peace. — Woodrow Wilson
Open covenants of peace, openly arrived at. — Woodrow Wilson
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Only peace between equals can last. — Woodrow Wilson
The fewer the desires, the more peace. — Woodrow Wilson
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. — Woodrow Wilson
Only a peace between equals can last. Only a peace the very principle of which is equality and a common participation in a common benefit. — Woodrow Wilson
No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acquiescence. — Woodrow Wilson
There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace. — Woodrow Wilson
Where the great force lies, there must be the sanction of peace. — Woodrow Wilson
WOODROW WILSON QUOTES ON THE NATION
America was born a Christian nation. — Woodrow Wilson
A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. — Woodrow Wilson
A nation is as great, and only as great, as her rank and file. — Woodrow Wilson
No nation is fit to sit in judgement upon any other nation. — Woodrow Wilson
It is not an army that we must train for war; it is a nation. — Woodrow Wilson
How is the schoolmaster, the nation, to know which boy needs the whipping? — Woodrow Wilson
The man who disparages music as a luxury and non–essential is doing the nation an injury. Music now, more than ever before, is a national need. — Woodrow Wilson
I can predict with absolute certainty that within another generation there will be another world war if the nations of the world do not concert the method by which to prevent it. — Woodrow Wilson
The allied nations with the fullest concurrence of our government and people are agreed that in Palestine shall be laid the foundations of a Jewish Commonwealth. — Woodrow Wilson
We can afford to exercise the self–restraint of a really great nation which realizes its own strength and scorns to misuse it. — Woodrow Wilson
There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight There is such a thing as a nation being so right that it does not need to convince others by force that it is right. — Woodrow Wilson
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. — Woodrow Wilson
Government is merely an attempt to express the conscience of everybody, the average conscience of the nation, in the rules that everybody is commanded to obey. That is all it is. — Woodrow Wilson
We shall fight for a universal dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world itself at last free. — Woodrow Wilson
Interest does not tie nations together; it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them. — Woodrow Wilson
The growth of our nation and all its activities are in the hands of a few men. — Woodrow Wilson
WOODROW WILSON QUOTES ON AMERICA
America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us… — Woodrow Wilson
My urgent advice to you would be, not only always to think first of America, but always, also, to think first of humanity. — Woodrow Wilson
America is the only idealistic nation in the world. — Woodrow Wilson
Americanism consists in utterly believing in the principles of America. — Woodrow Wilson
The interesting and inspiring thing about America is that she asks nothing for herself except what she has a right to ask for humanity itself. — Woodrow Wilson
Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the sovereignty of self–governing people. — Woodrow Wilson
America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness which are derived from the revelations of the Holy Scripture. — Woodrow Wilson
America was created to unite mankind. — Woodrow Wilson
America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand. — Woodrow Wilson
America is the place where you cannot kill your government by killing the men who conduct it. — Woodrow Wilson
Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world. — Woodrow Wilson
America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal–to discover and maintain liberty among men. — Woodrow Wilson
The way to be patriotic in America is not only to love America, but to love the duty that lies nearest to our hand, and to know that in performing it we are serving our country. — Woodrow Wilson
WOODROW WILSON QUOTES ABOUT LOVE
I want the people to love me, but I suppose they never will. — Woodrow Wilson
Humanity can be welded together only by love, by sympathy, by justice, not by jealousy and hatred. — Woodrow Wilson
No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach. — Woodrow Wilson
The object of love is to serve, not to win. — Woodrow Wilson
No man can rationally live, worship, or love his neighbour on an empty stomach. — Woodrow Wilson
You do not love humanity if you seek to divide humanity into jealous camps. — Woodrow Wilson
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. — Woodrow Wilson
WOODROW WILSON QUOTES ON JUSTICE
Unless justice be done to others it will not be done to us. — Woodrow Wilson
Justice, and only justice, shall always be our motto. — Woodrow Wilson
The firm basis of government is justice, not pity. — Woodrow Wilson
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. — Woodrow Wilson
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. — Woodrow Wilson
