I had rather be defeated in a cause that will ultimately triumph than triumph in a cause that will ultimately be defeated.
Woodrow WilsonA little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
Woodrow WilsonThere is here a great melting pot in which we must compound a precious metal. That metal is the metal of nationality.
Woodrow WilsonI came from the South and I know what war is, for I have seen its wreckage and terrible ruin. It is easy for me as President to declare war. I do not have to fight, and neither do the gentlemen on the Hill who now clamour for it. It is some poor farmer's boy, or son of some poor widow away off in some modest community, or perhaps the scion of a great family, who will have to do the fighting.
Woodrow Wilson