Quotes from Woodrow Wilson

Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that 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.

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

Following Rice, I went to Caltech for a Ph.D in physics, without any strong idea of what I wanted to do for a thesis topic.

Interest does not tie nations together it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.

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.

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

All things come to him who waits- provided he knows what he is waiting for.

No man ever saw a government. I live in the midst of the Government of the United States, but I never saw the Government of the United States.

Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

A man's rootage is more important than his leafage.

Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.

The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty. We have no selfish ends to serve. We desire no conquest, no domination. We seek no indemnities for ourselves, no material compensation for the sacrifices we shall freely give. We are but one of the champions of the rights of mankind. We shall be satisfied when those rights have been made as secure as the faith and freedom of nations can make them.