Woodrow Wilson Quotes

Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse.

The sum of the whole matter is this, that our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually.

If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. Character is a by-product, and any man who devotes himself to its cultivation in his own case will become a selfish prig.

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

If you want to make enemies, try to change something. You know why it is: to do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.

I can imagine no greater disservice to the country than to establish a system of censorship that would deny to the people of a free republic like our own their indisputable right to criticize their own public officials. While exercising the great powers of the office I hold, I would regret, in a crisis like […]

Every great man of business has got somewhere a touch of the idealist in him.

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

I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.

No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.