Woodrow Wilson Quotes

No task rightly done is truly private. It is part of the world's work.

It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars civilization itself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than peace and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts - for democracy.

It is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shooting at you.

I'm a vague conjunctured personality more made up of opinions and academic prepossessions than of human traits and red corpuscles.

Nothing was ever done so systematically as nothing is being done now.

The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty. We have no selfish ends to serve. We desire no conquest no domination. We seek no indemnities for ourselves no material compensation for the sacrifices we shall freely give. We are but one of the champions of the rights of mankind. We shall be satisfied when those rights have been made as secure as the faith and freedom of nations can make them.

When you come into the presence of a leader of men you know that you have come into the presence of fire - that it is best not uncautiously to touch that man - that there is something that makes it dangerous to cross him.

One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty councils. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.