Woodrow Wilson Quotes

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.

When correcting a child, the goal is to apply light, not heat.

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

I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.

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

He is not a true man of the world who knows only the present fashions of it.

The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.

America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal – to discover and maintain liberty among men.

As compared with the college politician, the real article seems like an amateur.

If you think too much about being re-elected, it is very difficult to be worth re-electing.

America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.

A fault which humbles a person is of more use to him or her than a good action which puffs him or her up.

Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.

If you lose your wealth, you have lost nothing; if you lose your health, you have lost something; but if you lose your character, you have lost everything.