This was not after all a conventional war, a struggle between equally predacious powers; it was a war to end all wars.
Woodrow WilsonA man is not as big as his belief in himself; he is as big as the number of persons who believe in him.
Woodrow WilsonI 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 WilsonThe trouble with the theory [of limited and divided government] is that government is not a machine, but a living thing. This is where the living and breathing constitution comes from. It is modified by its environment, necessitated by its tasks, shaped to its functions by the sheer pressure of life.
Woodrow Wilson