Quotes from Woodrow Wilson
Armed neutrality is ineffectual enough at best.
- Woodrow Wilson
Some Americans need hyphens in their names, because only part of them has come over; but when the whole man has come over, heart and thought and all, the hyphen drops of its own weight out of his name.
- Woodrow Wilson
[The Civil War] created in this country what had never existed before—a national consciousness. It was not the salvation of the Union; it was the rebirth of the Union.
- Woodrow Wilson
A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
- Woodrow Wilson
The method of political science is the interpretation of life its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions.
- Woodrow Wilson
Right is more precious than peace.
- Woodrow Wilson
Interest does not tie nations together it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.
- Woodrow Wilson
There are blessed intervals when I forget by one means or another that I am President of the United States.
- Woodrow Wilson
One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
- Woodrow Wilson
In the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
- Woodrow Wilson
The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous, event of our generation.
- Woodrow Wilson
My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business, that it is something we owe to each other to understand and discuss with absolute frankness.
- Woodrow Wilson