Woodrow Wilson Quotes

The light that shined upon the summit now seems almost to shine at our feet.

I confess my belief in the common man.... The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.... The man who is in the melee knows what blows are being struck and what blood is being drawn.

The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort.

Death, like the quintessence of otherness, is for others.

Statesmen have to bend to the collective will of their peoples or be broken.

A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what we have been about.

The rule for every man is, not to depend on the education which other men have prepared for him-not even to consent to it; but to strive to see things as they are, and to be himself as he is. Defeat lies in self-surrender.

You must act in your friends' interests whether it pleases them or not; the object of love is to serve, not to win.

You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.

Such a mind we must desire to see in a woman,--a mind that stirs without irritating you, that arouses but does not belabour, amuses and yet subtly instructs.

It is a protest against the way the world has worked. (explanation of Bolshevism)

Justice, and only justice, shall always be our motto.

I would not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with great respect of the past.

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