Woodrow Wilson

I am inclined to follow the course suggested by a friend of mine who says that he has always followed the rule never to murder a man who is committing suicide, and clearly this misdirected gentleman is committing suicide slowly but surely.

Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.

If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

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.

The only excuse that America can ever have for the assertion of her physical force is that she asserts it in behalf of the interests of humanity.

There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.

America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.

Some men who are not real men love other things about themselves, but the real man believes that his honor is dearer than his life; and a nation is merely all of us put together, and the nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort …

One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.

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

Do you never stop to reflect just what it is that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another, it is for the sovereignty of self-governing peoples, and her example, her assistance, her encouragement, has thrilled two …

Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.

We have stood apart, studiously neutral.

There is a very great thrill to be had from the memories of the American Revolution, but the American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation, and the duty laid upon us by that beginning is the duty of bringing the things then begun …

The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history. It represents the experiences made by men and women, the experiences of those who do and live under that flag.

We are constantly thinking of the great war … which which we think to-day as a war which saved the Union, and it did indeed save the Union, but it was a war that did a great deal more than that. It created in this country what had never …

There is such a thing as a nation being so right that it does not need to convince others by force that it is right.

No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.

There is such thing as a man being too proud to fight.

No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation.

You deal in the raw material of opinion, and, if my convictions have any validity, opinion ultimately governs the world.

The United States must be neutral in fact as well as in name...We must be impartial in thought as well as in action.

There are blessed intervals when I forget by one means or another that I am President of the United States.

I not only use all the brains I have, but all I can borrow, and I have borrowed a lot since I read it to you first.