Quotes by Woodrow Wilson

“You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world.”

“You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the ...”

“We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.”

“You are not here merely to making a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement.”

“We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study.”

“We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class of necessity in every society, to forgo the privilege of a liberal education...”

“Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.”

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

“Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of government is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is the history ...”

“Some people have a large circle of friends while others have only friends that they like.”

“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. But we shall not be poor if we love liberty, because the nation that loves lib...”

“A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what ...”

“No man can rationally live, worship, or love his neighbour on an empty stomach.”

“The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.”

“How is the schoolmaster, the nation, to know which boy needs the whipping?”

“It would be the irony of fate if my administration had to deal chiefly with foreign affairs.”

“We can afford to exercise the self-restraint of a really great nation which realizes its own strength and scorns to misuse it.”

“The immortality of Thomas Jefferson does not lie in any one of his achievements, or in the series of his achievements, but in his attitude towards mankind and the conception which he sought to real...”

“America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses.”

“If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.”