Woodrow Wilson

Quote: I believe in democracy, because it releases the energies of every human being. [Woodrow Wilson]

Quote: 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. [Woodrow Wilson]

Quote: Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness. [Woodrow Wilson]

Quote: Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles. [Woodrow Wilson]

Quote: Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions. [Woodrow Wilson]

Quote: We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. [Woodrow Wilson]

Quote: Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty. [Woodrow Wilson]

Quote: America is the place where you cannot kill your government by killing the men who conduct it. [Woodrow Wilson]

Quote: We grow by our dreams. [Woodrow Wilson]

Quote: That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic. [Woodrow Wilson]

Quote: The world must be made safe for democracy. [Woodrow Wilson]

Quote: If you want to make enemies, try to change something. [Woodrow Wilson]

Quote: It is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shouting at you. [Woodrow Wilson]

Quote: Surely a man has come to himself only when he has found the best that is in him, and has satisfied his heart with the highest achievement he is fit for. [Woodrow Wilson]

Quote: Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together. [Woodrow Wilson]

Quote: You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality. [Woodrow Wilson]

Quote: Fear God and you need not fear anyone else. [Woodrow Wilson]

Quote: There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight. [Woodrow Wilson]

Quote: I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty. [Woodrow Wilson]

Quote: No thoughtful man ever came to the end of his life, and had time and a little space of calm from which to look back upon it, who did not know and acknowledge that it was what he had done unselfishly and for others, and nothing else, that satisfied him in the retrospect, and made him feel that he had played the man. [Woodrow Wilson]

Quote: Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice. [Woodrow Wilson]

Quote: 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. [Woodrow Wilson]

Quote: Only free peoples can hold their purpose and their honor steady to a common end and prefer the interest of mankind to any narrow interest of their own. [Woodrow Wilson]

Quote: One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat. [Woodrow Wilson]

Quote: No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach. [Woodrow Wilson]

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