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Quotations
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I not only use all the brains I have but all I can borrow.
-Woodrow Wilson
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Responsibility
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Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.
-Woodrow Wilson
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Self Respect
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All the extraordinary men I have known were extraordinary in their own estimation.
-Woodrow Wilson
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Selfishness
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A little group of willful men reflecting no opinion but their own have rendered the great Government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
-Woodrow Wilson
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Service
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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 world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
-Woodrow Wilson
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Speech (freedom of)
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I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool, the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.
-Woodrow Wilson, Speech, 1919
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Students
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Generally young men are regarded as radicals. This is a popular misconception. The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life.
-Woodrow Wilson
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Success & Failure
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I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.
-Woodrow Wilson
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Unity
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We cannot be separated in interest or divided in purpose. We stand together until the end.
-Woodrow Wilson
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Victory
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I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose!
-Woodrow Wilson
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War
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There is no such thing as a man being too proud to fight; there is such a thing as a nation being so right that it does not need to convince others by force that it is right.
-Woodrow Wilson, Speech in Philadelphia, May 10, 1915
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World
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We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.
-Woodrow Wilson
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Youth
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The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life.
-Woodrow Wilson
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Books by and about Woodrow Wilson