Woodrow Wilson

Too much law was too much government and too much government was too little individual privilege,- as too much individual privilege in its turn was selfish license

America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand

Unless justice be done to others it will not be done to us

The thing to do is to supply light and not heat

We cannot be separated in interest or divided in purpose. We stand together until the end.

All the extraordinary men I have known were extraordinary in their own estimation.

You cannot become thorough Americans if you think of yourselves in groups. America does not consist of groups. A man who thinks of himself as belonging to a particular national group in America has not yet become an American.

No man has ever risen to the real stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.

You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.

We grow great by dreams. 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 these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them nurse them through the 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.

We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.

We grow by our dreams.

Character is a by-product it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

I have come slowly into possession of such powers as I have. I receive the opinions of my day. I do not conceive them. But I receive them into a vivid mind.

He is not a true man of the world who knows only the present fashions of it.

Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.

I will not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with respect of the past.

You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape.

Tell me what is right and I will fight for it.

That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.

Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.

I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.

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.

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

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