Woodrow Wilson

Government is not a machine, but a living thing. It falls, not under the theory of the universe, but under the theory of organic life. It is accountable to Darwin, not to Newton.

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.

No country can afford to have its prosperity originated by a small controlling class.

the laws of this country do not prevent the strong from crushing the weak.

American industry is not free, as once it was free; American enterprise is not free; the man with only a little capital is finding it harder to get into the field, more and more impossible to compete with the big fellow.

In most parts of our country men work, not for themselves, not as partners in the old way in which they used to work, but generally as employees,—in a higher or lower grade,—of great corporations. There was a time when corporations played …

Let those beware who would take the shorter road of disorder and revolution. The right road is the road of justice and orderly process.

The instrument of all reform in America is the ballot.

There are those in this country who threaten direct action to force their will, upon a majority.

The seed of revolution is repression.

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.

This war, in its inception was a commercial and industrial war. It was not a political war.

The seed of the jealousy, the seed of the deep-seated hatred was hot, successful commercial and industrial rivalry.

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?

America is the place where you can not kill your Government by killing the men who conduct it. The only way you can kill government in America is by making the men and women of America forget how to govern, and nobody can do that. They …

The Germans are really a stupid people. They always do the wrong thing. They always did the wrong thing during the war. They don't understand human nature. This is the most tactless speech I have ever heard. It will set the whole world …

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Well, nothing was ever done so systematically as nothing is being done now.

I have read it with the deepest appreciation of Mr. Herron's singular insight into all the elements of a complicated situation and into my own motives and purposes.

The supreme test of the nation has come. We must all speak, act, and serve together!

A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great Government of the United States helpless and contemptible.

It must be a peace without victory... Victory would mean peace forced upon the loser, a victor's terms imposed upon the vanquished. It would be accepted in humiliation, under duress, at an intolerable sacrifice, and would leave a sting, a …

There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized common peace.

The question upon which the whole future peace and policy of the world depends is this: Is the present war a struggle for a just and secure peace, or only for a new balance of power?