The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous, event of our generation. -Woodrow Wilson Government
Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach. -Woodrow Wilson Business
One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat. -Woodrow Wilson Cool
There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed. -Woodrow Wilson Religion
The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them. -Woodrow Wilson Men
I will not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with respect of the past. -Woodrow Wilson Respect
Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself. -Woodrow Wilson Science
There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed. -Woodrow Wilson Good
There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath. -Woodrow Wilson History
Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach. -Woodrow Wilson God
The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy. -Woodrow Wilson Government
Interest does not tie nations together; it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them. -Woodrow Wilson Sympathy
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 Motivational
There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with. -Woodrow Wilson Equality
A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt. -Woodrow Wilson Politics
The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty. -Woodrow Wilson Peace
Neutrality is a negative word. It does not express what America ought to feel. We are not trying to keep out of trouble; we are trying to preserve the foundations on which peace may be rebuilt. -Woodrow Wilson Peace
