Woodrow Wilson quotes

We grow great by dreams.
- Woodrow Wilson

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

All things come to him who waits - provided he knows what he is waiting for.
- Woodrow Wilson

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

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

Responsibility is proportionate to opportunity.
- Woodrow Wilson

There is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.
- Woodrow Wilson

A nation is as great, and only as great, as her rank and file.
- Woodrow Wilson

A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do.
- Woodrow Wilson

There was a time when corporations played a minor part in our business affairs, but now they play the chief part, and most men are the servants of corporations.
- Woodrow Wilson

The method of political science is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions.
- Woodrow Wilson