Quotes from Woodrow Wilson

During my pre-college years, I went on many trips with my father into the oil fields to visit their operations. On Saturday mornings, I often went with him to visit the company shop. I puttered around the machine, electronics, and automobile shops while he carried on his business.

Never attempt to murder a man who is committing suicide.

If you want to make enemies try to change something.

There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.

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

Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.

All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them, nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true.

If you think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself.

No nation is fit to set in judgment upon any other nation

Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse.

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.

We have stood apart, studiously neutral.